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...revved up and waiting to begin immediate production of deadly new weapons. In a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Administration last week said it planned to make a "unilateral policy declaration" promising to abide informally by the SALT ceilings, "provided that the Soviet Union exercises similar restraint." Moscow is expected to make the same promise this week. But the longer the arms deadlock, the greater are the chances that each side will develop new weapons systems that future treaties may find impossible to eliminate or control...
...jeered by the militant rank and file; one union chief, National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley, was spat upon and called a "scab" by demonstrators. It was left to the Prime Minister himself, a trades-union member for four decades, to make the most effective case for wage restraint. In a forceful, televised sermonette, Callaghan pointed out that wage increases above 10% would "seriously weaken" the government's chances of containing inflation. "I was brought up to believe that free collective bargaining was the milk of the gospel," he said, in defense of a third year of wage...
Dangerous as a defeat would have been to Callaghan, the victory, ironically, assured very little. The decision on the twelve-month rule is nonbinding; the T.U.C. has no power to prevent an individual union from breaching it. Workers on the factory floor hold the key to any policy of restraint by individual unions, and just now they are in a rebellious mood. After the congress, some union leaders hinted that they were fully prepared to flout the twelve-month rule; Arthur Scargill, Communist leader of the Yorkshire miners, said, "This decision makes no difference to the miners' wage claim...
...Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1959) and Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1960) did indeed rail at the upward immobility of the British class system; it was Sillitoe's cool precision in portraying them that made these fumings so hot to the touch. Sillitoe's restraint, his continued attention to the Nottinghamshire region of his own childhood, are quiet virtues that the noisy passage of 20 trendy years in England sometimes eclipsed. On the evidence of his 14th novel, these qualities have also made him a long-distance writer...
Even by Italian standards, the intensity tends to get out of hand, particularly in the otherwise compelling performance of Giancarlo Giannini as the son. Scarcely a ciao can be spoken without a soulful stare, a strangled sob or an eloquently twitching nose. The cool restraint of Catherine Deneuve, which on other occasions can seem maddeningly vacuous, here supplies a welcome relief. She is a fetching brunette in this film. Playing Giannini's sister, she floats through all the gnashing and weeping with a fragile and captivating serenity...