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Serious Abuses. Still more surveillance of citizens in two unidentified cities occurred in 1971 and 1972, after a source-Colby described him as "a foreigner visiting in the U.S."-told the CIA of a plot to kidnap Helms and kill Vice President Spiro Agnew. TIME has learned that the scheme was hatched by revolutionaries in Latin America. Although Colby said that the CIA did alert the Secret Service and the FBI of the plot, an intelligence official reported that the agency conducted the investigation in this country virtually without other agency assistance, scrutinizing the activities of black radicals who were...
Laura Quinn, fortyish, opens her suburban Boston home to Jim Cogan, 17, the son of Bronx relatives. He is awaiting arraignment in New York, charged with involvement in a lunatic guru's plot to blow up the public library. His future is on the line. If she hopes to persuade him to change, Laura realizes, she will have to put her past on the line...
FUNAI has tried to pacify the Indians by moving them to new lands away from the construction, but the tribes' delicate social fabrics have often not survived. Last year, for example, the Kranhacarore Indians of Mato Grosso state were moved to a plot of land away from their ancestral area but still only a few miles from the new road. Within ten months, Indian men were begging on the construction sites. Eventually, the government had to transfer the demoralized Kranhacarore away from the construction sites to Mato Grosso's 13,750 sq.mi. Xingu National Park...
CAUGHT IN SUCH a limbo, Hercules Poirot proceeds to solve the mystery. Nowadays, almost any TV detective show has a slicker, more plausible and more difficult plot than Murder on the Orient Express. The mystery seems secondary to the gallery of eccentrics it brings together. The best things in the movie are irrelevant to the story of murder and its solution. Poirot interrogates his witnesses, for example, with George Coulouris and Martin Balsam sitting on the sidelines. Whenever one witness leaves the cabin, one of the two roundly asserts, "He did it" and the other scoffs; when the next witness...
Sexually Irresponsible. The plot is thin. A young man named Louie (Zane Lasky) has impregnated five women, sired nine children by them and cast their support on the bowed back of the U.S. taxpayer. A black deliveryman, Lewis (Cleavon Little), is mistaken for this paragon of sexual irresponsibility, and his favors are courted by a family whose minds and hearts consist of liberal mush...