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...Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullmann, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Sean Connery -Producer Joseph Levine claims to have already received enough backing from eager distributors to cover his $25 million outlay for A Bridge Too Far. The saga of the abortive Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944 by parachuting 35,000 men behind the lines into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think, like crack British troops. For the dramatic scenes...
...West Europeans, that this is dangerously outdated. After a recent inspection of NATO installations, Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that Soviet forces in Europe could now mount a surprise attack, blitz their way past NATO's defenses and reach the Rhine in 48 hours. Reported the Senators: "Should the NATO alliance fail to improve its conventional war-fighting capabilities ... the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies soon may be invited by NATO weaknesses to launch a major conventional invasion of Western Europe...
...tank force grew at only about one-fifth that figure. This arms imbalance is especially dangerous in NATO's north-central region, stretching from the Baltic to the Alps, where numerous areas of excellent tank terrain offer an inviting route of march from the Elbe to the Rhine or over the English Channel...
REDEPLOYMENT. U.S., British and West German units would be in better positions closer to the front. Large units of the American forces that are now concentrated in southern Germany could be shifted to reinforce the British Army of the Rhine in the more vulnerable north. But any troop shift must overcome formidable civilian obstacles, ranging from lengthy litigation to buy land to the outraged cries of conservationists. The U.S. is soon to assign a 3,800-man brigade to the Bremerhaven area; the negotiations for the base's lease took two years...
...around and pat The Welles on the back, though, the theater has begun a matinee series of documentaries that shows great promise. Leni Reifenstahl's riveting, gripping and therefore horrifying Nazi propaganda film arrives this weekend. In the next cinema, Carl Jung gives a filmed interview and Dr. J.B. Rhine, expert on ESP, discusses clairvoyancy. Don't leave the regular matinee crowd to hold up the bottom on this new, needed format...