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...last point, Vietnam, Rockefeller was the consummate politician. Sensing a chance in 1968 to attack Richard Nixon for his phantom "secret plan" to end the war, he and his adviser, Henry A. Kissinger '50, devised a detailed position that Rockefeller could espouse. Their plan was "progressive" in 1968. It called for free elections and a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops. But it was a devised position, nothing Rocky felt in his gut. Witness a press conference on March 21, 1968, just before he decided to acquire a position...
...original material for Siddhartha--the book itself--was no gem, but the basic setting and action has potential. Louis Malle (Phantom India) and Jean Renoir (The River), along with Satyajit Ray and his Apu trilogy, have shown that India's culture is fascinating on film. And Kon Ichikawa made a brilliant Japanese film called The Burmese Harp about a soldier burying the unknown dead after the World War II defeat, giving the story of a religious ascetic roaming the countryside incredible resonance and conviction...
...could withdraw its military mission from Saudi Arabia, possibly troubling King Feisal, who has running difficulties with the Iraqis and South Yemenis, but the French would be happy to send a military mission as a replacement. The U.S. could also refuse to sell Saudi Arabia some 30 Phantom jets it has been dickering for. That would only confirm an apparent Saudi decision to buy French-made Mirages instead...
...Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story and the incomparable Greta Garbo in Camille. And next door they're pushing something about how people in high places aren't all they seem to be called The Werewolf of Washington. Louis Malle's Calcutta, shot at the same time as the Phantom India series (now on tv, incidentally), is at the Central along with Jean Luc Godard's Le Gai Savoir. Two more different political films would be hard to imagine, yet both apply New Wave ideas of using the camera as pen. Malle treats the masses of Calcutta with touch...
...ironies in the U.S. view of the conflict is that some of Israel's strongest supporters are liberals who led antiwar sentiment in the U.S. during the Viet Nam years. The Senate resolution urging the continued delivery of Phantom fighter-bombers and other war materials was introduced by, among others, Viet Nam Doves Jacob K. Javits and Abraham Ribicoff. Among the "American Professors for Peace in the Middle East" who signed an ad in the New York Times advocating support of Israel was Martin Peretz, an assistant professor of social studies at Harvard and a major contributor to George...