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...high-pressure last-minute drive to finish the accord was carried out on two levels. Working furiously through the weekend in Paris, a technical team headed by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William Sullivan held marathon sessions with a similar Hanoi group. Still at issue as Kissinger flew back to Paris for a final top-level meeting with Hanoi's Le Due Tho were a few technical questions, such as turning P.O.W.s over to the U.S. officials...
...some months, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro has been showing nearly as much distaste for Havana-bound hijackers as have American authorities. Last Nov. 10, after three men hijacked a Southern Airways jet and took it on a marathon flight to Cuba (TIME, Nov. 27), Castro ordered them jailed and called for broader measures to put the clamps on aerial piracy. With that, the U.S. and Cuba, through Swiss intermediaries, began negotiations that could lead to a mutual agreement to ensure that hijackers would face harsh punishment for their crime in both countries...
This sort of technical challenge was evident in Pollack's earlier films, particularly They Shoot Horses, Don't They", but it was the strength of the screenplay and acting that made that film seem so much more significant. Pollack was faced in Horses with the restricted arena of a marathon dance floor and its dressing rooms, the problem of following moving dancers, and pacing tedium and crisis in the course of the marathon. Only top lighting could be used because the cameras needed to pan all 360 degrees of perimeter, and it was emential to give a sense...
...people and accelerated a government crackdown on the Irish Republican Army in the South. The dangerous freelance adventurism of skyjacking persisted. As of last week there had been 393 such episodes round the world in 1972, including one marathon in November that lasted 29 hours before the three hijackers left the Southern Airways jet in Havana...
...aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk nosed into the waters of San Diego harbor last week to end a marathon 9½-month tour at sea and to face a bitter post-mortem on one of the worst race riots in modern naval history. The sights and the sounds of the homecoming were mostly friendly, with helium-filled OPERATION WELCOME balloons lifting off the pier and mothers of crewmen's children born since the ship sailed waving from a special stand. But as the giant vessel came to port, two black crewmen, framed against the disk of the radar screen, lifted...