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...five-member cells which were constantly on the run. Known as "foco," the Spanish word for "focus" or "center," they each operated independently, recruiting new members and carrying out bombings and other terrorist acts that had been cleared in advance by the Weather Bureau. Says Grathwohl: "We were all paranoid as hell. We never parked cars closer than two blocks from where we were staying. We never left or came back in groups. If we had the slightest idea that we were being followed, we spent hours losing the tail by riding buses endlessly or dodging through big stores...
...piece of dotty, slightly paranoid intrigue. Three Days of the Condor promises little and keeps its word. It is hard to get indignant about it, or enthusiastic either. There is no clear compliment the movie can be paid without an immediate qualification: it is smooth but forgettable, bearable but brainless. The film has nothing novel to say and nothing to offer except Robert Redford. But the way things work in Hollywood these days, Redford is enough...
...word play ("One must always flush out one's house/If he doesn't expect to be housing flushes") combine to create a feeling of goodwill about the whole album; you get the feeling that Dylan enjoys writing songs, enjoys playing with The Band, that Dylan he is not as paranoid as he used to be--no longer the kid from the Midwest who made it bigger than Guthrie. He's brought it all back home...
Trying to explain Fromme's fascination with violence, Dr. Louis Jolyon West, head of the psychiatry department at U.C.L.A., points out that she was part of a group whose members all were paranoid to varying degrees. "They all suffered from a group syndrome," he says. "There was a pattern of holding to false beliefs with even greater conviction and emotional commitment than a normal person's beliefs that are subject to the laws of evidence. They were being victimized by conspiracies and plots coming from very high levels of Government. This affirms the grandiosity of their self-image...
...raised those problems last week about the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy was not some paranoid conspiracy hunter but Kenneth Hahn, a member of the Los Angeles County board of supervisors. The occasion for his questions was the board's unanimous vote to have the county counsel join in a new assessment of the evidence in Kennedy's murder...