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Some congressional critics are more than satisfied by the State Department report. Says Congressman Jim Leach, Republican from Iowa: "The previous statements on the subject were sufficient to indict but not to convict. On the basis of the new report, I think any jury would convict...
...because of the Administration's frequent overstatements. Says Gregory A. Flynn, of the Paris-based Atlantic Institute for International Affairs: "What happened with that [purported Nicaraguan guerrilla in El Salvador] brought up to Washington is bound to affect the world's interpretation of this latest report." Concedes Leach: "The U.S. is not too credible any more in the eyes of some [foreign] governments. They think we suffer from an anti-Soviet paranoia...
...Lady, and until a hand appears between page and eyes-a makeup woman minutely improving Mabel's face-she reads subtle paragraphs about Americans abroad. But it is now harder for her to find the intensity that the stage show always seemed to generate, and Director Leach has noticed that lately she seems to grit her teeth when thinking of England. Love scenes with Rex Smith are still to be shot, and she must be shyly radiant. Leach has told her to take some time off, fly back to her home in Los Angeles and soak up those...
Linda broke up totally, and Smith was almost as far out of control. The first act was a horror, and by the end of it the audience was booing. Linda, giggling and crying backstage, told Director Leach she couldn't continue. He said, very calmly, that she must go out in front of the curtain, before the second act began, apologize to the audience and sing Poor Wandering One again. She did, with Smith beside her, and the night was saved. Leach tells this as a tribute to Ronstadt and Smith. Ronstadt says that Leach is wise and solid...
...company has been trying for several hours to shoot a scene featuring the song Hail, Poetry ("For what, we ask, is life/ Without a touch of poetry in it?"). Director Leach sees the scene as a tableau, a Victorian postcard. He has shot it before, but the results seemed to him "like a bunch of people standing in a field." Shooting it again is costing money, and Universal Pictures has begun prodding Papp about costs; the production, which is scheduled for release later this year, was budgeted at $9 million and now seems likely to come in at about...