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Doubtlessly, all concerned with this enormous, expensively cast and heavily flacked "prestige" production were earnestly anxious to make a vivid, powerful statement about this central American historical drama. It was brave of them to try to do so in the unlikely precincts of prime-time commercial tele vision. It appears, however, that in their fervor not to be misunderstood, to be clearly on the side of the angels, they have set aside all common sense. In the one-third of their work available in advance to critics, not one sympathetic white character appears. Not a single black man of less...
TUESDAY. Specific instructions for the ransom delivery were conveyed in tele phone calls to the Yorktown house. Apparently realizing the impracticality of handling $4.6 million in the denominations asked-the mass would weigh about 1,000 Ibs.-the kidnapers cut their demand in half, now asking for $2.3 million. The drop was set for Wednesday night. Bronfman was to put the money in a car and personally take it to John F. Kennedy International Airport, then wait at a specific public telephone booth...
...scrambled or coded, or both; codes are changed often. Adds an official of the National Security Agency, which supervises the U.S.'s electronic surveillance: "What hasn't penetrated the Soviets' system yet, apparently, is the hard fact that truly sensitive stuff is never discussed on tele phones here...
These halting voices are very moving; and Arabs and Israelis is a kind of candle sputtering bravely in the dark ness. It was made by Boston's WGBH, which used two field producers, an Egyptian newsman and an Israeli tele vision journalist. They could not visit each other's homelands, but they worked together closely, if often argumentatively, in neutral Switzerland to shape each program. The series is now being offered all over the Middle East. Though no nation has accepted it yet, Israel, Jordan and Egypt have expressed interest in it. One cannot help believing that...
...Grand Order of Water Rats, an entertainers' organization, Anne and Husband Captain Mark Phillips arrived to accept a check on behalf of the Police Dependents Trust. "Have you fallen off any good horses lately?" cracked Basil Brush, a puppet fox and star of a children's tele vision show. Replied Anne coolly: "You don't fall off good horses...