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...Israeli tactics Foreign Minister Cheysson had already declared that "we Socialists would never have signed this [nuclear] contract. At least not without a clearer idea of Iraqi intentions. And not without clearer guarantees that it could be used only for peaceful purposes." Paris would likely demand much tougher restrictions for the reactor if asked to rebuild...
...steel and automobiles are now limited in some way. And restraints in one country beget restraints in another. No sooner had Washington pressured the Japanese into limiting the number of cars shipped to the U.S. than the Europeans, who already control their auto imports from Japan, were demanding still tougher restraints...
...late. As Angels lurched toward extinction, it kept stumbling into new dificulties. ABC rescheduled it against tougher competition on Sunday nights (Archie Bunker's Place and CHiPS), a test that sent its ratings plunging one week to 59th out of 65 shows. There were threats of litigation over the division of profits. With the coming of a new political era, the Moral Majority began trumpeting charges of immorality on the air waves. And Jaclyn Smith, who has won a much publicized new role playing Jacqueline Onassis, announced that she too would depart when the season ended. The dying show...
...merely eight points in two consecutive games, and leading Houston in scoring twice. Reid came from tiny St. Mary's University in San Antonio, so he had to learn big-time ball the hard way - against the pros. Says Coach Harris: "Paultz and Malone made Reid a tougher guy. Here's a player who had the body and the ability, but he was a fancy dancer and prancer. They made...
...that as a writerdirector, Alda is too eager to please. He goes for big laughs where a small smile would perhaps be truer to the rueful mood he tries to establish. One feels he is sometimes easing away from the tougher implications of his tale. There is also an empty prettiness to his shooting, especially in the transitions from season to season. Still, American movies are rarely as alert as The Four Seasons is to the tensions implicit in friendship, to the social conventions by which people try to control the anxieties of ordinary life, and one cannot help responding...