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Rescuing cats-a sign of his humanity, says Director Richard Donner-is the least of Superman's good deeds. Producers Ilya Salkind, 29, and Pierre Spengler, 30, are determined to outdo the special effects of Star Wars-and reap its profits. "At one time it was exciting to see Superman hold up the end of a truck," says Tom Mankiewicz, the last of five scriptwriters brought in to turn comic strip into film strip. "Now you see Lindsay Wagner do things like that every week on TV for free. So we had a problem, and Superman's feats...
...reason seems to be the absence of ideology in Europe today. The result is that parties are following people, rather than trying to lead them, even the big "Euro-Communist" parties of France and Italy, which seem to be going through an identity crisis. The leaderships try to outdo one another in pledging allegiance to democratic institutions, while many rank-and-file members are casting around for other solutions...
Even Walt Disney Productions has a hand in the act: they'll provide us with a spectacular half-time display that should outdo the 4000 pigeons and the "missing-man" formation of Air Force jets that have highlighted half-time spectacles in past years...
...closing days of the campaign, the Arab boycott of companies that do business with Israel has suddenly become a U.S. political issue. Both candidates are trying to outdo each other in denouncing it. Their tug of war has shed little light on how the boycott works, but it is spreading confusion and concern among businessmen...
Jerusalem is relishing the spectacle of both candidates trying to outdo each other in public pledges of support for Israel. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, after watching the debates on TV in New York, only half jested: "I don't know if Ford or Carter won. All I know is that Israel won." Despite the insistence that it has no preference in the race, the administration of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin is believed to favor the incumbent. Familiarity is again the reason...