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...shadow of Flight 007 still darkens relations between the two superpowers, but last week both Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov shifted their attention to a matter of far more compelling urgency and long-run significance: the menace of nuclear weapons in Europe...
...total of less than 10 million) have gone on strike. In part at least, all of them share the credo expressed by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo four years ago to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: "We have to understand the truth, otherwise a shadow of sadness will forever hang over the descendants of this shattered generation...
...come election time, he drew less than 7 percent of the vote, probably because Anderson, once touted as the candidate with "new politics," a back-to-issues approach that voters really sought, became a sad, fading shadow scuttling behind Reagan and Carter. He came to be perceived as very much the politician concerned about his image, not the intellectual, upfront candidate the press and public had grown to know...
Thus a spur to more Black candidacies for elected office and an assist to the death knell of Black voter apathy constitute important spinoffs from a Jesse Jackson presidential candidacy, thoroughly justifying it. These benefits over-shadow the concern of Jackson's detractors among Afro-American leaders like Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP and the National Urban League's John Jacob, among others, that, in Jacob's words--"the Black [presidential] candidate could very well turn out to be a spoiler--allowing... less desirable candidates to win primaries and perhaps even the nomination...
...have played the voice of God in the 1966 movie The Bible, but Director John Huston, 77, cannot move mountains. So last month Huston moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the shadow of Popocatepetl, site of his new epic, Under the Volcano. The film, which stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews, takes place during a single day in 1938, mostly inside the head of its drunken protagonist. "The consul is the most complicated character I've ever had in a film," says Huston. "He's like a Churchill gone bad, a great man with a flaw." Bisset...