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...Attles-Barry leadership has paid off. The Warriors' new center, Clifford Ray, acquired in the deal for Thurmond, has been an outstanding defensive player and rebounder. Barry's teammate at forward is Rookie Keith ("Silk") Wilkes, a U.C.L.A. product who has retained all of his smooth college shooting skills. At the guard spots, Golden State has two solid ball handdlers and playmakers in Butch Beard and Charles Johnson...
Kaunda did not go so far as to ask South Africa to abandon its own racist policies. In fact, Vorster has begun to smooth down some of the rough edges of apartheid-by easing the job restrictions on nonwhites, for instance -thereby making his policies somewhat less objectionable to his black neighbors. Though South Africa was voted out of the U.N. General Assembly last month, Vorster vowed at the time that South Africa's critics would be surprised "at where the country will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid...
...close in his hands, to see if it will run smooth...
...affair by the new rules with her ex-husband, at the end of the film, she has a new line: "telling the truth now...because we make no demands." Her myth is that if only people didn't talk in a babel of lies they would love in a smooth, enduring way. But beyond commitment and non-commitment she can't think of any reasons why people can't talk things out. Her myth is a more select version of what too many say: If only people understood each other they could live in peace and harmony...
Underneath this inelegant collection of cinematic scraps is a pretty fair notion for a thriller: how the smooth, ambitious organizer of a small cell of industrial and political informers programs each of the members to kill one another. The members take information from various fields of specialization and pass it along to a clever control, who uses it in turn to blackmail and barter for positions of power. He wants to liquidate them to consolidate his power and go on to bigger plots. His plan is carried out almost according to the letter, with just one hitch, stashed right...