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...that national security would be endangered. Walters said his position was that "I had a long association with the President and was as desirous as anyone of protecting him. I did not believe that a letter from the agency asking the FBI to lay off this investigation on the spurious ground that it would uncover covert operations would serve the President." A coverup, in short, was objected to not in principle but on grounds that it would not work...
...significance of last week's Congressional actions, however, seems to have been lost on Nixon, for his spokesmen continue to issue arrogant statements indicating he will disregard the votes. The rationale for his actions is spurious: the struggle in Cambodia is being waged by indigenous revolutionaries and not, as Nixon claims, by infiltrators from outside. Nixon should have learned the lessons of Watergate by now: if he continues to disregard the nation's duly elected representatives and the authority of the Constitution they uphold, his illegal acts should add another point to a bill of impeachment...
...sense, neither side was profoundly concerned about the facts of the matter. The French policy of distinguishing between a Mirage deal with Egypt and one with Libya is by now a bit spurious. The two countries are scheduled to merge Sept. 1, and a major aim of the newly created state will be to strengthen Arab unity against Israel. The Israelis, for their part, fully expected that some of the planes would wind up in Egyptian hands. Moreover, they have no reason to be particularly upset by the news, since the highly trained Israeli air force, which has about...
...stridency. His movies are like glossy international versions of Dragnet, with a rather different political bias. Like the dauntless Jack Webb, Costa-Gavras employs a sort of arhythmic, staccato editing and prominent, even aggressive music (by Mikis Theodorakis) to punch the movie along, giving it a kind of spurious suspense. His characters are mouthpieces, not people, repositories of conflicting political attitudes. In State of Siege they lack only conventioneers' name tags to clearly identify them...
...audiences at midnight shows for two years now; it even received a special screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Romero operates out of Pittsburgh, making his films on the cheap. Rather like Skinflick Impresario Russ Meyer, Romero edits his scenes into short blurts, which gives them a certain spurious energy. His scripts, which hover dangerously close to illiteracy, contain outrageously pedestrian dialogue, mostly shouted. ("Get Dr. Brookmyre a gas mask!") The plot of The Crazies is a graft off The Andromeda Strain, wherein a virus that the Government has perfected for germ warfare somehow escapes and drives the citizens...