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Mullen, backed by equally conservative John Cardinal Krol and his Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, decided that the state, with its 35% Catholic population, was natural terrain to make a stand against the trend to more liberal laws on public morality. The battle was joined over the issue of abortion. To counter a liberal abortion bill, the conservatives proposed a bill of their own that outlawed abortion altogether except when a panel of three physicians certified that the mother's life was endangered. It made no allowance for victims of rape, incest or mental illness. Supporting the conservative bill, the Catholic...
That still does not explain why the planes crash in the first place. Although the F-111 was designed as an all-weather craft, some flyers speculate that dense rain squalls in Viet Nam somehow foil the plane's complex TFR (terrain-following radar), which permits it to skim treetops at 200 ft. above ground at speeds of more than 500 m.p.h. Others suggest that the dense tropical humidity in Southeast Asia somehow damages its complex electronic circuits governing flight and navigational controls. But no one really knows for sure. After returning from an F-111 mission over Laos...
RAFELSON'S MONOPOLY METAPHOR is too slick a formula. He has poached inconsistently on the terrain Arthur Miller familiarized: Shopworn sales talk has become the idiom of a society based on manipulation, commercial go-getting has been universalized as a private ethic, preservation of personal integrity means self-destruction. These are his cool assumption, the truisms of one who has seen-it-all. Sentimentially is a demon to him, so he lavishes heavy filmic methods in an effort to play it tough, and it is wholly at the expense of his material. He has twisted the form of his film...
...midst of equally outmoded and even blinder French aristocratic gamesmanship. Underneath the veneer, worker and German frustration seethes. The plotting and editing are whirlwind: if you can't catch everything first time around, you ski across the surface of each situation and get some idea of the terrain. The cast includes Marcel Dalio and the director himself...
...POLITICAL TERRAIN is no longer as favorable for Thieu as it was in those wistful days of late 1968 and early 1969. The North Vietnamese say that they have done everything humanly possible to speed the peace talks toward a settlement. The Provisional Revolutionary Government accepted on September 11, 1972 that a "solution to the internal problem of South Vietnam must proceed from the actual situation that there exist in South Vietnam two administrations, two armies and other political forces...(who) must unite on the basis of equality, mutual respect and mutual non-elimination." In early October, the North Vietnamese...