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...Dispatches from Vientiance reported intensified Communist pressure against Long Chen, the center of U. S. Central Intelligence activities in Laos. Gen, Vang Pao, leader of the CIA-supported Meo tribesmen, flew to Vientiane to plead for reinforcements and more U. S. tactical air support...
Nixon also dispatched Vice President Spiro Agnew last week to plead with county commissioners, mayors and other politicians in Atlanta and Kansas City. In Kansas City, Agnew assailed those who fear that local governments cannot be trusted with unrestricted federal funds. Said he: "I don't think there is any more likelihood of a local official being corrupted than there is of a Congressman being corrupted." Nixon is also organizing 20 touring panels-three Republican Congressmen each-to plead for his program. They are being called "Drummers for the New Revolution...
...British Commonwealth meant tea at Buckingham Palace and gracefully informal get-togethers in mahogany-paneled London offices. No longer. Last week, when the 31 regular members of that unique order gathered for their 18th formal conference, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, the host, had to plead with his colleagues to be polite to each other, "if only coldly...
...insurance claims are partly fraudulent. Uncaught employees pocket $1 billion a year from their employers. To poor offenders who go to jail without bail the system is unfair, and the legal process strengthens that opinion. If a man cannot afford a good lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial, as do 90% of all criminal defendants. He then discovers that for the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences, from which 31 states and the federal courts allow no appeal...
...pace and pulse of Citizen are reminiscent of Costa-Gavras' magnificent Z. Its nearly surrealistic aspects-as in a fantasy in which his inspection-department cronies refuse to allow him to plead guilty-are rather shaky recalls of Bunuel. Indeed, the film's fundamental drawback is that Director Petri is intent on political statement: the terrors of police fascism. The inspector cries: "Repression is civilization," and such crude political commentary detracts from solid psychological drama...