Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Welles becomes a sewer rat; every exit is covered and his seemingly endless ability to scramble in and out of huge blocks of misshapen rubble is exhausted. The underground chase goes on for a little too long--any recent film like Bullitt could give us a more varied and exciting sequence, probably with helicopters and Jensens and a pyrotechnic climax. Major Calloway is a wiser, more upstanding policeman than any (although Ironside may be a close second) but he is part of the irrelevant, whodunit part of the story...
...Political Statement of the Weather Underground" is printed in pink by Prairie Fire. It comes with a "Name the Enemies" crossword puzzle and chants conveniently printed on the verse. They have their neo-Indian war shield white with streaming yellow ribbons, that bobbies through the crowd on a pole about 15 feet high...
...AWOL from the communes. Many refugees in Hong Kong are ex-students who braved a nine-hour swim through tightly patrolled waters to escape rural drudgery. Even more of the youths simply drift back to their native cities; without ration tickets to buy rice, they are forced to live underground, often stealing in order to survive...
Died. Paul Ely, 77, former French army chief of staff; in Paris. After seeing action in the trenches along the Marne in World War I, Ely joined the Gaullist Resistance when the Nazis conquered France in 1940, and made several hazardous Channel crossings as liaison between the underground and De Gaulle's London headquarters. Named army chief of staff in 1953, he made the final unsuccessful French appeal for American intervention in France's colonial war in Indochina. When Ho Chi Minh's troops overran the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu, Ely assumed command in Indochina...
...government's current strategy is to undercut the Baptist underground by building up the All-Union Council and its support in the West; some concessions have been granted the council, and its membership is up. But prospects are bleak for the rival movement. Thousands of Initsiativniki have been forced back into the All-Union Council or outside of all organized religion. For Vins himself, the future almost certainly holds a sentence of up to ten years, since acquittal in political cases is virtually unknown. Vins' wife and four children fear that given his shaky health, he will follow...