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...told all of you for the last year and a half that we were going to catch them, but nobody believed me." With those uncharacteristically exuberant words, Special FBI Agent Charles William Bates, 55, celebrated last week's capture of Patty Hearst and her ragtag radical comrades. As chief of the FBI office in San Francisco, Bates doggedly led the nationwide hunt for 19 frustrating months. He had coolly endured newspaper complaints that the investigation was being badly run. Bates never responded publicly to the criticism, but repeatedly expressed confidence that his agents would crack the case...
...full of pulp-magazine notions about honor under pressure. Bite the Bullet is made in blatant-indeed, often desperate -imitation of The Professionals, and the character Hackman plays is a virtual reincarnation of Robert Ryan's softspoken, steel-fisted horseman of the previous film. Instead of forming a ragtag commando unit, though, the heroes now make up a party of racers, heading over 700 miles of rugged territory for $2,000 in prize money...
Correspondents and cameramen in the Continental Palace Hotel swarmed down the stairs, through the lobby and out across Lam Son Square in single file, a ragtag army lugging typewriters, shoulder bags, TV cameras and sound gear. Our designated assembly point was down near the Saigon River four blocks away. Armed policemen in the square eyed us menacingly. There was no question: this formation clearly signaled the final departure of Americans from the Indochina...
...those who out of religious belief or political conviction made themselves early enemies of the new regime; those whose service in the Vietnamese army or government or whose working for the U.S. guaranteed their arrest, their "re-education," or in some cases their death. Most, though they looked as ragtag as any fleeing refugee, are urban and middleclass...
Seen without regard to its predecessor, Shardik resembles good science fiction, unsatisfactorily diluted with Victorian romanticism. The author postulates a tribe of Iron Age men called Ortelgans, in ancient times the builders and rulers of a splendid city called Bekla, but now, because of military and moral decline, a ragtag band of hunters huddling fearfully on a river island at the edge of the Beklan empire. The planet is earth, but the local geography is all of the author's making, and he has great fun with maps, invented place names and at least four different languages...