Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When King was shot, Jackson was standing near him outside a second-floor room of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Jackson visited Ray last week in response to one of a series of letters that the prisoner has been mailing to black leaders. In them, Ray insists he did not kill King and has evidence that "will be helpful in establishing that there was a conspiracy" behind the murder...
...President had his town meeting last month in West Berlin, for instance, Rafshoon arranged for live network coverage of it back in the U.S. After returning home, Carter held his first evening news conference in order to capture much of TV's prime-time audience. In the near future, Rafshoon plans a few televised presidential interviews. Carter and Rosalynn, meanwhile, have been holding intimate dinners at the White House for news executives, to give them a better feel for his personality and goals...
Muzorewa opposes such a move, but in the end he may be obliged to go along with it. Several members of his party have criticized him for "political ineptitude" and called for his resignation. Six months ago, he drew nearly 200,000 people at a rally near Salisbury; nowadays his meetings rarely attract more than 500. His colleague on the Executive Council, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, is doing even worse. Last week he scheduled a political rally at a football stadium in northeastern Rhodesia. Only 15 people showed...
...still in the process of drawing up guidelines for the exchange, nowhere near making the actual selections," he said...
...scenes bomb so badly, no pun intended, but there are a few others that fail both as incisive social commentary and as humor. In a sequence near the end of the film, a waiter at a rustic country restaurant with a ritzy clientele gets involved in a grotesque food fight in the kitchen with the chef, who turns out to be his lover. The slapstick technique employed here went out of vogue in America at about the same time that Hal Roach stopped making Spanky and Our Gang films. After all, squids perched atop the suddenly toupee-less head...