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...wilderness will be permanently closed to any new mining and drilling leases after next year. Watt has proposed modifying the ban: in 18 years all wilderness lands would become available for exploitation. (Last week the House unequivocally rejected Watt's plan. It voted 340 to 58 to outlaw most wilderness leasing immediately and the remainder on schedule...
Only too aware of the rumblings, Reagan endeavored to shore up his right flank. Speaking in Hartford to a convention of the Knights of Columbus, the Roman Catholic fraternal organization, he reaffirmed his support for constitutional amendments that would outlaw abortion and permit group prayer in public schools. Said Reagan to a standing ovation: "This national tragedy of abortion on demand must...
Nelson is Barbarosa, an aging outlaw who has grown tired of living up to his 30-year legend. Gary Busey plays (engagingly, as always) a renegade farm boy who wants to be part of that legend and, if he can, extend it into Western myth. For all its genre trappings, Barbarosa is essentially a comedy about friendship; both the humor and the amity are infectious. Australian Director Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) uses his telephoto lens to caress the rugged vistas and visages of West Texas like a melancholy lover. Time-lapse shadows lope across a mountain range, eloquently...
...spring of Barbarosa's plot is an endless battle between the outlaw and a Mexican family he married into decades ago. There is a blood feud in The Challenge, too, as bloody as it is feudal. Two swords have been in an old Japanese family for six centuries. Now, in modern Kyoto, two brothers fight to the death for possession of those swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune...
...invited but declined, later chided the New York-based Kristol for not knowing-as those who live in Washington quick ly learn - which invitations to avoid. Will steers clear of conservative groupies and styles himself a Tory- which is fine if he remembers that Tory originally referred to an outlaw Irish highway robber...