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...roles of mayor of Carmel, Calif., Marine Sergeant Tom Highway and just plain Clint Eastwood, he is far too busy acting, directing, producing and running a town to take any flak. Not even from the U.S. Army. Seems that in his latest film, Heartbreak Ridge, he plays a lifer who won a medal in a bloody Korean War battle but who is now going through some rough times both in and out of the service. The Army refused to cooperate with the production because of script problems, so Eastwood sold it to the Marines. When Army veterans complained, the star...
...extra-legal means won't eliminate abortion entirely. But considering the difficulty of instituting and enforcing a legal prohibition of abortion, an extra-legal pro-life movement would probably be much more effective in preventing abortions without abridging anyone's freedom of choice. And to a true pro-lifer, preventing more abortions is all that matters...
When Ed Kimm enlisted in 1969, he had an idea about somehow redeeming his brother's death, and put in for a tour in Viet Nam, which was refused. He became a lifer anyway, planning to retire (and buy a horse ranch, he figured) around the turn of the century. But his peripatetic Marine career evidently did not jibe with marriage: the Kimms split...
...control bill has mysteriously dried up. Labor union groups have generated support ton the most idiotic measures--witness the projectionist domestic-content bill, which even The Crimson opposes, and yet is supported by nearly every major Democratic Presidential candidate. And when Ms. Idelson refers to Ellen McCormack, the pro-lifer who ran for President, she should remember the anti-war activists who ran for elected office during the Vietnam War, and the Black candidates, including would-be Presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson, who are beginning to assert their political power. Like most people, I detest all special-interest groups...
...Class, two trains to Harvard Square meet in the way station of Vernon Academy, an Illinois boys' prep school. The express arrives in the form of Square "Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local chugs in and Skip finds himself rooming with Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), a bright it somewhat unworldly scholarship student First day out, the preppie picks on the nerd and Class seems to be shaping up into a celluloid bildungstoman...