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...make it sound (or look) as if everyone who is on welfare and jobless is black or Puerto Rican. A lot of them are white...
TIME Chicago Correspondent Robert Wurmstedt, once a Peace Corps volunteer, reports: "The poverty in the black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods on the West Side of Chicago is worse than any poverty I saw in West Africa. The people there are guided by strong traditional values. They do not live in constant fear of violence, vermin and fire. You don't find the same sense of desperation and hopelessness you find in the American ghetto...
...night Barbara Walters, ABC's million-dollar anchorwoman, appeared for only a minute or two on-screen at the beginning and end. Next night, in a different hairdo, she was dispatched, like any local girl reporter, to stand before a bombed-out glass front to talk about Puerto Rican terrorists-a story on which ABC breathlessly lavished twice as much tune as the other networks. Such new tactics have generated a flood of newspaper rumors: Is ABC's expensive anchor team of Walters and Harry Reasoner out of favor? About to be fired, about to quit? No. About...
...uninhibited courting habits and added a new travail to an already painful summer in Job City. The metropolis, which is still only a few legalistic steps ahead of fiscal insolvency, has suffered through a nightmarish blackout and looting, a bloody bus hijacking and last week two bombings by Puerto Rican independence terrorists. One man was killed and seven people injured, while other bomb scares over two days forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 workers from their buildings...
...tive England and the accumulated non sense of the medium in which he works that generate the affectionate, and effective, contempt animating the first portion of Feldman's film. Even when he and it move further afield, following the disgraced Beau into his North Af rican exile as a legionnaire, there's some amusing game afoot. Peter Ustinov, as a sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given Ustinov and his horse matching peg legs. But the whole pro ject soon begins to deflate...