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...good public policy to make sure the small guys stay on the land. We're not trying to just lock the West up and turn the whole thing into a national park," says Babbitt. Mining interests know they will have to give ground, up to a point. Says John Knebel, president of the American Mining Congress: "We're going to have to make some adjustments...
...lens. This is an unashamedly political film, spoiling to pin responsibility for the small, independent farmer's troubled times on the shrugging shoulders of the Reagan Administration. However majestic Jewell Ivy (Jessica Lange), her husband Gil (Sam Shepard) and their teen-age son Carlisle (Levi L. Knebel) may appear in profile against the Iowa sky, they are still vulnerable to being devoured in the tractor tracks of bureaucracy. And Gil, a defiant homesteader who can't take maybe for an answer, is in danger of losing his family and his self-respect when he realizes the enormity...
...military coup in the United States that flounders only because the general has an impeachable background (a woman), and the White House threatens to use it against him. Still very tense and even a little scary in its implications. Rod Serling wrote the script based on the novel by Knebel Bailey. I think the real credit goes to Bailey; Serling just knows a good thing when he sees it and only occasionally when he writes it. Ch. 56, 8 p.m., 2 1/2 hours. Black and white...
...distill the experience of three centuries of European interaction with the Americas into a paradigm of history, culture, morals, and psychology. He proves that a political novel need not be on the level of satire or gossip, that it can rise above Allen Drury and Gore Vidal and Fletcher Knebel. Garcia's heroes are political heroes, and they are better heroes than carefully apolitical novelists have been able to create...
...updating of Seven Days in May, Fletcher Knebel's 1962 novel in which the military tries to take over the U.S. Government? According to news accounts, the Pentagon had planted a spy ring in the White House to ransack Henry Kissinger's classified files and copy documents relating to the National Security Council's most sensitive deliberations. The stolen information was then relayed to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other Pentagon brass...