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Incredibly, that announcement was based on photographs that the Italians had had for seven months. The pictures were taken by Lowell Newton, an American who had witnessed the assassination attempt. Newton's photos were passed on to the police almost immediately after the shooting, but there was no reaction. Then, in December, the Italians suddenly called Newton to Rome. He made the trip last week to testify about what he had seen...
After the shots, Newton recalls, "I saw this man running toward me. I looked down and saw a gun in his right hand and froze." The man, says Newton, had "longish black hair and what I could only describe as Mediterranean features: dark skin, suntanned, but not black." The man passed within four feet of Newton, who ran in pursuit, taking two photographs from behind before the fugitive disappeared into the columned archways surrounding the square...
Subsequently, Newton decided that the man could have been Ali Chafic, one of the team of alleged Libyan hitmen believed to be planning to kill President Ronald Reagan or other high American officials. Newton made that identification after studying a drawing of Chafic circulated by the U.S. Government...
...second offering, The V.I.P., is a bourgeois drawing-room play, centered on J.G. Baldwin (Cliff Robertson), an important business type, and his executive secretary, Kate Worthington (Julia Newton). As they sit in the V.I.P. lounge waiting for Baldwin's flight to be announced, he begins to ask her about her past. Kate tells him how she no longer wishes to see her mother, being scornful of such "insidious apathy" with which her parent seems afflicted. The mother seems to have returned to Tennessee, whence she came. "Ah, I used to have a weakness for Southern belles," declares our hero...
Exposing concern for his son, sent to a military academy "to become a man"--why else?--amid his concern for the effectiveness of his payoffs, Robertson's Baldwin is, in character and enactment, as limited as only a Hollywood actor could imagine corporate America to be. Julie Newton, whose delivery of an endless stream of "Yes, sir's" would warm Patton's heart, has precisely the degree of emotionlessness one would require of a secretary. Unfortunately, one requires a bit more than that from an actress...