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...town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras' Missing and a Turkish production, Yilmaz Güney's Yol - were winning the festival's top prize, the restaurants were abuzz with the latest news from Sophia Loren's pink-walled prison in Caserta near Naples. Comedy, melodrama, illusion 24 times per second. That's the name of the game in Cannes, on and off the screen...
...caustic observer put it, "The film couldn't miss in Cannes: it was both American and anti-American." As for Yol, this slow, powerful study of six Turkish prisoners on a short leave to visit their families was "directed" by its author, Yilmaz Güney, while he was being held in a Turkish jail on a murder charge that his supporters believe was politically motivated...
That explanation seemed plausible to U.S. officials, who have long suspected that many Haitians pay smugglers $ 1,000 to $2,000 each to make the 600-mile jour ney to Florida. The refugees routinely deny that they bought their passage, but that may be because they will need to rely on the smugglers to bring them back again if they are deported from...
Edward N. Ney, chairman of the nine-member visiting committee, said that problems cited in the report included...
...Ney said both departmental structure and the administration's treatment of Afro-Am contributed to its problems. "The visiting commitee didn't think that Harvard has given Afro-American Studies the time or consideration it deserves," he said...