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...getting every penny. Whenever Passman slipped a questionable fact into his long, loaded questions, McNamara cut in, requested permission to "clarify" the record. In a typical exchange involving the adequacy of military assistance to Greece and Turkey, McNamara snapped, "There is absolutely no question but what the Greek and Turkish forces are deficient in equipment, and no amount of verbal distortion will change that fact." Protested Passman, "I am not using any verbal distortion." McNamara shot back...
Plucked from a conference table in Geneva, U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball last week flew to Athens and Ankara as a special envoy of President Johnson. His job: to damp down the latest Cyprus crisis caused by the sudden massing of Turkish troops at the seaport of Iskenderun...
...wallowing in Grade C sex, Russia presents a cogent story line (better, in fact, than the original), and at least three spectacular scenes, each capable of drawing spontaneous applause from any audience. The sex has also been moved up a grade--you won't want to miss the Turkish mode of female competition in the second reel...
...herself to appear as Rosa Klebb, the lesbian SPECTRE spymaster who starts the diabolical plan against Bond in motion. She's come a long way from Dreigroschenoper but still manages an effective performance. That Pedro Armendariz seems better as a Mexican revolutionary (his traditional role) than as Bond's Turkish sidekick is largely due to his limited versatility as an actor. Red Granitski, the homicidal fiend of the novel, has been tamed down to a cold war equivalent of a Murder, Inc., thug--the change makes him much more frightening. Unfortunately, the fellow selected to play Grant fails to capitalize...
...Greeks have a sound point when they argue that the Turkish minority is blocking the democratic principle of majority rule. But the Turks are equally convincing when they contend that the Greeks under Makarios have abused their majority power, and are increasingly unwilling to let the Turks survive on the island. To a degree, the antagonists are victims of history. Yet the world, which these days demands-and gets-fairly rational behavior from the hostile big powers, has a right to ask a modicum of reason from both sides in this vicious little squabble...