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...encode the directions in which people are trying to move their countrymen. Combatants in the abortion arena rally around "right to life" and "freedom of choice." Opponents of nuclear power cry, "No nukes," while proponents answer that it is "safer than sex." Liberated homosexuals chant, "Gay pride"; their detractors plead, "Save our children." Blacks employ "black is beautiful" for self-encouragement and "black power" as a statement to the established order. And the elderly now demand "gray power." Proposition 13, though a California event, has become a rallying call everywhere among rebels hoping to achieve tax reductions...
DERN BEGINS merrily but uninterestingly, engaging in Yellen's witless but stubbornly persistent banter. He gets to be boyish and lewd and folksy, to plead and be charmingly self-deprecating, to do lots of nightclub imitations (accents were Lewis's specialty), to get drunk and be irrepressibly untactful, exposing the hypocrisy of others, to despair and age and writhe in agony. Dern does well, especially considering he's been off stage for 19 years, but the quality that makes him special, that sometimes seems too intense for the big screen, is imperceptible on stage. You'd think that his body...
...strangest episode of the week, the ebullient "god-prince" who once ruled Cambodia suddenly' emerged from the house arrest in, which he had been kept for three years by Pol Pot. Following a bizarre six-hour press conference in Peking, Sihanouk flew to New York City to plead the Kampuchean cause before the U.N. Security Council. His 41-minute speech turned out to be one of his best ever. Without straining his credibility by defending the Pol Pot regime, Sihanouk made a strong case for imperiled Kampuchean nationalism and likened the invading Vietnamese to "a starving boa constrictor leaping...
...York Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who came to the United Nations to plead for aid against the invasion, received treatment yesterday at Lenox Hill for "extreme stress and exhaustion," Dr. Michael S. Bruno said...
...violations of human rights. The difficulty of governing Iran was never understood in the U.S. nor, for that matter, was the Shah's loyalty to the U.S. Helms remembers that during the oil embargo of 1973, the Shah sent his emissaries to Egypt and Saudi Arabia to plead for a quick end. He kept Israel supplied with oil at that time. Once he secretly sent a tanker out to refuel an American carrier task force running low on oil in the Indian Ocean. In the closing days of the Viet Nam War, at U.S. request, he instantly dispatched...