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Besides the passport, Locke has Robertson's engagement book and his plane ticket with a Munich airport locker number scrawled on its face...
...begins to follow Robertson's future with no knowledge of his past. He keeps the appointment in Munich and discovers that Robertson was an arms trafficker, running guns to the rebels that Locke had tried to interview. As Robertson, Locke becomes active, a participant in history rather than a recorder of it. But he remains irresolute in his new identity. The masquerade of rebirth is only a stalling action. And as the film's last scene reveals, he makes himself a willing accomplice in Robertson's own destiny...
...Israel. Ambassador Simcha Dinitz is regularly seen in the West Wing White House office of Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Dinitz, subtle and clearheaded, is fully aware of the current concerns of American Jews. "There is more talk of a second Munich in the United States than in Israel," he observes. "As Foreign Minister Yigal Allon has said, Ford is not a Chamberlain, Sadat is not a Hitler, and Israel is not a Czechoslovakia. But great apprehension exists...
...angry reaction when the news reached Chicago, where 250,000 Jews live. Jews charged in an avalanche of mail that he was selling out Israel. Letters in Chicago newspapers protested that Percy was asking Israel to "commit national suicide" and complained that the man responsible "for the murders at Munich and Ma'alot" cannot be termed "a moderate." Asked another letter: "Can Percy and others be bought by petrodollars?" Jewish leaders demanded that Percy return to Chicago and explain himself...
...world record, he made the first half in 1:58.9. With his rocketing initial spurt, Bayi has changed the entire strategy of the mile. "We have to get up and go from the start now," says New Zealander Rod Dixon, who placed third in the 1,500 meters in Munich. Says Bayi modestly: "It's just my style. I'm not trying to psych anyone." Except himself. Last year, when he tried running with the pack, he was so rattled by the traffic that he fell and was spiked. Now he looks at the scar and says...