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...silence about the split, the Socialists are busy turning out books and pamphlets defending their position. Both sides refuse to compromise on the contentious issue of how much of French industry should be nationalized under the common program of a leftist government (TIME, Oct. 10). Declared Socialist Leader null Mitterrand: "Any new concession would be like tossing wood into the conflagration...
Berlinguer's belated 4,300-word answer-addressed to "Mr. Bishop"-was yes The party boss quoted approvingly from Pope John null encyclical Pacem in Terris, which argued that "encounters and understandings between believers and those who do not believe can be occasions for discovering truth and rendering homage to it." Berlinguer, who attacked Moscow after the invasion of Czechoslovakia and has criticized the Soviet system for its lack of political liberties, also conceded that East Bloc governments "have fallen into discriminations" against Christian believers. Nonetheless, he added, "they are beginning to come out of this situation, even...
...first Goretta allows us to luxuriate in love's spell for an hour or so, staging a series of tender scenes that describe the tentative, early episodes in Pomme and null idyll. The mood is lyric, and the Normandy air is thick with affection: when the sensitive Frangois takes the virginal Pomme to bed for the first time, we are too caught up in their unaffected eroticism to notice much else. Only after the lovers leave their vacation paradise does Goretta begin to reveal his hand: as null grows bored with the affair, The Lacemaker seamlessly goes from lush romance...
...movie's ideological position soon becomes clear. To Goretta, null rejection of the defenseless Pomme exemplifies the way the rich exploit the working class. But, unlike so many recent ideologically minded films, The Lacemaker never sacrifices the integrity of its characters to its political message. Rather than turn Francois into a snotty villain and Pomme into a peasant saint, Goretta, an eyenhanded Swiss, attacks the system that victimizes them both. The movie's title, with its allusion to 17th century genre paintings, suggests the delicacy of Gor-etta's style...
...discussions with Vance in Jerusalem, Begin repeatedly took up the Palestinian issue, which seemed to bring out all his emotional righteousness. At one meeting he harangued Vance with passages from the P.L.O.'s 1968 charter, which declares the Balfour Declaration and the partitioning of Palestine to be "null and void." "Imagine," remarked Begin sarcastically, "the State of Israel is deemed null and void...