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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisp white uniforms and carrying medical kits arrived with the first shoppers. The nurses installed themselves behind a table and proceeded to take the blood pressure of all shoppers who desired a free test. At the same time, squads of teen-agers fanned out to the beaches and rundown sections of the city and began cleaning up garbage and debris. "This is how the Frente Amplio will govern," proclaimed pamphlets distributed by the young people...
...tragic fact is that violence occurs all too often, especially in rundown, transitional neighborhoods. White parents on the South Side of Chicago see their kids being regularly rolled for their lunch money; in Annapolis Md white children are afraid to use school washrooms guarded by black toughs Detroit's Martin Luther King High School has a modern building, but the school is an island in the middle of a rotting ghetto. Heroin is openly dispensed from a "shooting gallery" a block away: drunks loll on the sidewalks, bottles of Thunderbird wine still in their hands...
...ostensibly minor Soviet trade official named Oleg Lyalin, 34, failed to show up to answer the charges against him?"driving while unfit through drink." He was resting instead in a comfortable country house near London where, for the past several weeks, he had been giving British intelligence a complete rundown on local Soviet espionage operations. His revelations prompted the British government two weeks ago to carry out the most drastic action ever undertaken in the West against Soviet spies: the expulsion of 105 diplomats and other officials?nearly 20% of the 550 Russian officials based in Britain...
...another stipulation: over the next twelve years, the oil companies must put as much as $1 billion into a special government fund. If the equipment left behind is in satisfactory condition, the money will be returned to the firms; if not, it will be used to replace and repair rundown facilities. The new legislation also gives the government greatly expanded supervision over day-to-day operations...
...life of a professional daredevil and his wife Linda (Sue Lyon). The movie is best when dealing with Knievel's early exploits: harassing the small-town Montana cops, riding into a dormitory full of giggling co-eds in pursuit of his girl friend, and stunt driving in a rundown local rodeo. Soon Knievel (played improbably but ingratiatingly by George Hamilton) begins to build quite a reputation for himself, and even becomes a sort of folk hero. Crowds turn out from all over the state-and, it is eventually implied, from all over the country -to watch his harebrained heroics...