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Question 4 on tomorrow's ballot lets voters ratify or repeal those raises. If they are rescinded. the legislature seems likely to give itself another pay increase; the only unknown would be its size...
Rush couldn't begin with a more promising subject for film treatment. An enigmatic young Vietnam vet (Steve Railsback) is on the run from the police for some unknown crime. A near brush with death in his desperate escape from arrest brings him into the distorted movie-set world of a flamboyant, god-like director (Peter O'Toole) and his company on location near San Diego. The company's star stunt man has been killed and the arrest must be temporarily concealed; the fugitive needs a refuge until the heat is off. The director has seen that this hard-bitten...
...Peace Prize committee chose Pérez Esquivel from a record list of 71 nominees. Although virtually unknown outside human rights circles, he edged out such candidates as President Jimmy Carter (for his Camp David efforts), British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe (for their successful endeavor to end the war in Rhodesia), Swedish Disarmament Activist Alva Myrdal and Pope John Paul II. Pérez Esquivel, said 1976 Peace Laureate Betty Williams of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, is "the greatest living radical pacifist leader." Noted the Nobel committee: "He is among those Argentines...
...rather like a storybook fable. A mist-glazed 18th century Scottish village, unknown to any map, wakes from its protective sleep one day in each 100 years. Two 20th century Americans stumble on the town's inhabitants on just that fateful day. Susceptible Tommy (Martin Vidnovic) soon tangles heartstrings with a bewitching local lass, Fiona (Meg Bussert). This actress has a voice of Baccarat crystal. When she pairs with Vidnovic to sing Almost Like Being in Love, all heaven breaks loose...
DIED. William (Billie) Thomas, 49, former child actor known for his escapades as the mischievous Buckwheat in 93 Our Gang film shorts made between 1934 and 1944; of unknown causes; in Los Angeles...