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...past six years, former President Luis Echeverria's policies at home and abroad created a double reaction in the United States: first neglect, then paranoid fear. Echeverria's outspoken nationalism and his attempts to lead the Third World in international forums was not given much importance in the first years of his term. Americans perceived this nationalism as a product for domestic consumption which would not affect their interests. Moreover, the first three years of Echeverria's presidency were characterized by multiple contradictions, so that few Mexicans, and many fewer Americans, knew what Mexico's position was on any subject...
...couple that might be the victims (or the perpretrators) of who knows what hideous crime of romantic vengence. This Francis Ford Coppolla movie--one for which he had trouble finding funding or distributors--works hauntingly on at least three levels. Metaphorically, it serves to highlight the pathologically paranoid mood of the last years of the Nixon administration and the Watergate cover-up. Intellectually, it goes deeper than this; Hackman painstakingly and convincingly becomes a man who just can't handle the perversity and technocartic inhumanity of his occupation, and who begins to fathom the horror of people like him turning...
...model train on the special-effects man's miniature trestle. Such audiences as there may be for this pulse-slowing movie might wish to reflect on the dismal results of commercial overreaching. For what The Cassandra Crossing offers is an unstable blend of three currently popular genres: the paranoid thriller, in which the good guys turn out to be rotten; the train-of-fools story; and, finally, a disaster film. Decent writing and skilled direction might have come up with something admirable for its nerve if nothing else. But the crowd responsible for this one lacks even...
...Everette) Howard Hunt Jr. was paroled after spending 32 months in prison for helping mastermind the burglary. Uncontrite, he described Watergate as a "paranoid exploitation [of] a minor illegal act." He added: "I paid my price for Watergate in sorrow and lost, wasted years; in tragedy, ridicule and humiliation." The worst blow was the loss of his wife Dorothy, who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 while taking $10,000 in $100 bills to Chicago. Looking wan and thin, Hunt surfaced in Brookline, Mass., to consult with a booking agent about going on a lecture tour to make...
...could be that some kind of "plot" in this case was not altogether a flight of Amin's paranoid imagination. Some observers in Kampala believe that he ferreted out a scheme involving dissident soldiers and pilots and ordered a military campaign against a border village in which hundreds of tribesmen may have been killed; Amin has made no mention of this. In any event, the world has only his word that the ministers and the archbishop were involved in some plot. He merely described the "accident" as "a punishment of God, because God does not want to make others...