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...censorship committee within the agency to ensure that no secrets crept into print in the writings of former agents. It was Turner who was responsible for the civil prosecution of Frank W. Snepp, whose 1977 book, Decent Interval, a critical study of the agency's role in Viet Nam, was published without prior CIA review, in violation of his contract with the agency. In February 1980, the Supreme Court ordered Snepp to hand over profits from his book to the Government. So far, that ruling has cost Snepp nearly $200,000 in forgone royalties...
...representing an increase of some 2,000 since the war. Also, for the first time, Moscow has installed its advanced SA-5 surface-to-air missiles outside the Soviet Union. The two batteries of SA-5s, located near the Syrian towns of Dumar and Shimshar and manned by So viet technicians, are in a position to strike aircraft in northern Israel...
...main competition, three other directors-all women, all in their 30s-were earning praise outside it. Boat People by Ann Hui of Hong Kong was withdrawn from competition, reportedly at the insistence of the French government, which is seeking to solidify its relations with the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. The caution is understandable: this film, shot partly in mainland China, is a powerful piece of humanist propaganda about a family trying to escape Da Nang three years after the U.S. forces evacuated Viet...
...releases. The film's nominal plot has Roy Scheider as a good Los Angeles police department chopper ace assigned to test what amounts to a flying gun platform. Once he discovers its illiberal potential, he must fight his way past Malcolm McDowell, an old neofascist enemy from his Viet Nam days now employed as a power-elite gunslinger. After that dogfight comes a showdown with a couple of Air Force jets...
...elections are decided with how wars are decided. But he was also reflecting the widely held belief in history's obedience to the dictates of popular will. That belief and its corollary, the futility of force, are usually and facilely attributed to America's bitter experience in Viet Nam. Viet Nam, however, did not introduce to America the idea that political power derives from hearts and minds. In a democracy founded as an act of national will and based on the notion of popular sovereignty, that idea has a more ancient pedigree. It also has considerable power...