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...Sports, Monday Night Football (with the ineffable Howard Cosell in the announcing booth), even the Battle of the Network Stars and all its banal offspring. Under his leadership, ABC bid millions to televise the Olympics and transformed the games into global theater. His use of multiple cameras, instant replay, slow motion, on-field microphones and other electronic gimmickry revolutionized sports coverage...
Wishing to avoid a replay of the previous week's catastrophe in Guatemala, where a police attack on the occupied Spanish embassy resulted in 39 deaths, Salvadoran authorities kept their security forces away from the scene. Right-wing terrorists showed no such restraint: shortly after the embassy seizure, a leftist doctor was gunned down at his clinic; members of an ultraconservative group threatened to execute three kidnaped Communist leaders and burn down the embassy if the occupiers did not withdraw within 24 hours. Before that deadline was reached, the militants at the embassy freed seven of their hostages...
Imagine an instant replay-not in slow motion, but in reverse. That is what Harold Pinter has done in depicting an adulterous love affair. It is over in the first of nine scenes, and it begins just before the curtain drops. This is a clever conceit. Pinter, as we have much past reason to know, cannot write a wrong line-or a dull pause. The key actors, Raul Julia, Blythe Banner and Roy Scheider, are marvels of professional finesse, and Peter Hall's direction is ticktock perfect in its precision...
...They're hungry: after all those almosts they can taste the title. Plus, it's their last chance to do it as the L.A. Rams (next year they travel down the road to Anaheim). Pittsburgh's just a wee bit complacent--after all, Houston came within one instant replay of ambushing the champs...
...other SALT critics warn. They fear that the increase in the accuracy, payload and number of Soviet MIRVed. ICBMs will soon threaten the U.S.'s own Minuteman ICBMS with a first strike. Such a capability could be an instrument of political blackmail such as in some future replay of the Cuban missile crisis, or perhaps over Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet in SALT II, the Carter Administration would have blunted that threat somewhat by limiting the proliferation of warheads. It would be better, of course, if the treaty stopped the Soviet buildup rather than merely slowing it down...