Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religious offering did not include a good script. Great pains have obviously been taken to prevent the placid Burns from being upstaged; Reiner has chosen to cast him opposite John Denver, an innocuous, highly-forgettable country-western singer, and a company of lovable codgers from Barnard Hughes to Ralph Bellamy. Denver's wife, who must put up with his "visions," is played, badly, by Teri Garr, who went on to become the wife of a similarly-obsessed Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She should have better taste in husbands, poor girl. Such an unthreatening, inoffensive cast...
Dick joined the radicals in 1970; three years later Ralph went underground too. Last April, Van Lydegraf asked his two faithful followers if they wanted to work with the clandestine Revolutionary Committee, a Los Angeles-based feminist faction of the Weather Underground that was looking for new members, especially people who knew about firearms. Ralph's purported experience in the military and Dick's in armed crime made them perfect candidates...
...Revolutionary Committee had a problem: the two men were the first FBI agents ever to penetrate the dark and harsh world of the Weather Underground. Ralph, actually Agent Richard J. Gianotti, and Dick, Agent William D. Reagan, lost their cover in November when federal judges needed their testimony to issue warrants for the arrest of Van Lydegraf and four Weather people, the biggest roundup of the group ever made. The Government contends that the five aimed to bomb the office of California State Senator John V. Briggs, a conservative Republican who hopes to run for Governor on a strong stand...
...women claimed to have been involved in many bombings and said they knew how to build explosive devices but needed help on firearms. Within two weeks of meeting the agents, they asked for weapons training and were taken by Ralph to the Mojave Desert, near Barstow, Calif. They used various rifles and handguns in target practice, but never became good shots. Ralph made sure their lessons were models of misdirection...
...revolutionaries held regular jobs. Josie Bissell was a nurse's aide, while Michael Justesen worked as a pressman at a lithography firm. To avoid detection, the group scheduled all meetings with Ralph and Dick by calling them at predesignated phone booths. The radicals never went to any political demonstrations for fear of being spotted by lawmen. When driving in cars, they always monitored police radios. The fugitives among them went out only at night. None had any contact with their families. All had aliases and would change them as often as once a week, but they never used counterfeit...