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...booked for espionage but, astonishingly, was released by a magistrate on $30,000 bail. The magistrate's reasoning: that since Wolf had turned himself in, there was little likelihood that he would try to flee the country. The ruling was promptly appealed by Germany's chief prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl, and Wolf was put in investigative custody. A ruling on the appeal could come this week and set Wolf free...
...irony is that while news programming is proliferating, news gathering is drying up. The networks have become adept at devising new and fancier ways of packaging the news, finding the human-interest angle and the life-style feature, gathering experts for Ted Koppel or Lesley Stahl to interview at night. What they are doing less and less of, however, is day-to-day coverage...
Nothing wrong with that story or with a solid cast (headed by Armin Mueller- Stahl and Aidan Quinn). Why, then, does this movie set one's molars to grinding? Partly because it is impossible to imagine a Jewish family passing a half-century in America without encountering -- and railing against -- prejudice. Partly because the law of averages suggests that in a group this numerous there ought to be at least one mean, crazy, totally unassimilable figure. Somebody, in other words, who would cut through the sweet patience with which the Krichinskys confront both their ups and downs, and occasionally convert...
Some lived even longer, to bear witness to atrocities and bring the beasts to justice. In Music Box the accused is Michael Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Hungarian now living in Illinois. Was he the malefic Miska, who as a member of the Arrow Cross during World War II raped women at gunpoint and tossed bundles of Jews into the Danube? Laszlo's daughter Ann (Jessica Lange), an attorney, believes her father is innocent and fiercely defends him in court. But the weight of survivors' testimony is too heavy, too obscene, to dismiss. Can she believe that her doting father...
Like the incoming Bush Cabinet, the new White House press corps has many familiar faces. Lesley Stahl, who covered Reagan's first term for CBS News, is returning. So are veteran Reagan watchers for ABC, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. Yet White House reporters old and new take up their posts at a time when the beat, though still one of journalism's most prestigious, has lost some of its luster after eight years of obsessive news management by the Reagan Administration. "Like the peso, it's been devalued," admits...