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...second-ranking official appeared before a Senate committee to assure its members that they could go ahead with Raymond Donovan's confirmation as Secretary of Labor. FBI agents, he testified, had found nothing unsavory in Donovan's business dealings as a construction executive, despite the rumors of underworld connections. One troubled Senator asked if the investigation might not have been more thorough. No, replied Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen, "I do not know what else we could have done...
...turned out, there was a lot the FBI could and should have done. It could have informed the committee, as it did White House Counsel Fred Fielding, that underworld informants had linked Donovan with known mobsters. In addition, FBI agents could have pursued other suggestive leads. They did not until months later, TIME has learned, because Mullen ordered his investigators to ease off Donovan, with what a top FBI official says was the tacit agreement of White House aides. Mullen, now acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, says the charges against Donovan were too "nebulous, way out" and "nonspecific...
Politicians can prove they are unafraid of exposure by encouraging the FBI to follow leads that connect the underworld to the political arena. For all the unseemly whining about Abscam in Congress, one fact is irrefutable "We haven't" as FBI chief William H. Webster said before Congress last week, "arrested anyone innocent...
...them in distinguished westerns (John Ford's The Searchers) and easterns (Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo). What Miller has done here is create a milieu as dense and tangy as Tolkien's Middle Earth or Céline's demimonde. This is Australia as the Down Underworld, where character is revealed in the gradations between good and awful. Drawn in vivid cartoon strokes, this menagerie can be funny or heroic or scary...
...torpedo-shaped head attached to a bulldog's body. He moves, and barks out his dialogue, with the arrogant energy of Cagney and Robinson, but with precisely none of their charm. In The Long Good Friday, Hoskins gets to play a Little Hitler of the London underworld out to make a killing in real estate while some mysterious rivals make more spectacular killings of his henchmen. Director John Mackenzie's idea of subtle menace is to show a victim's hand nailed to the floor; and Hoskins, in moments of stress, is too quick to bare...