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...Field Hockey, J.V. I acrosse, Jimmy Fund, Committee. "An Evening with Champions". Chairman Patron and Sponsor Committee, Volunteer at Mass. General. Pediatric Ward...
...most fleeting but poignant moments (and probably the only one in which Baker's off-the-wall pacing has any effect), Schepisi moves directly from a shot of a glamourous Susan in her artsy Soho 'walk-up to one of her staring out of the window in a mental ward after the first of many nervous breakdowns. Scrubbed of all make-up and eroded with rivers of tears, Streep's pinched expression carries more punch in this one scene than Hare's screenplay does in the entire film...
...Government has accused various Order members of a $3.6 million armored- car robbery in Ukiah, Calif., last year; the machine-gun slaying last year of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver; and other crimes ranging from bank robberies to counterfeiting. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Ward launched the Government's case by stating that he would prove, with testimony and documents, that Jean Craig, the only woman defendant, did reconnaissance for the Berg shooting and that Bruce Carroll Pierce acted as triggerman. Ward also asserted that Order members received tax-free "salaries" of $20,000 annually...
...statements. We can discern that some of these statements are actually designed to make the product look better, or designed to hide the actual true meaning behind the words. But the main thrust of what they want to say is that it is essential to do everything possible to ward off, even to prevent, the slightest opportunity of reaching any accord with the Soviets on space-weapons bans or on the ban on nuclear testing. Now from these pronouncements made by Tower it appears that nothing depends on whatever the Soviet Union does at the talks in Geneva...
Speakes explained the motivation crisply: a moratorium on tests would only "perpetuate" a Soviet "monopoly" since Moscow has an operational ASAT system and Washington does not. "They have one and they don't want us to have one," said Speakes. But the U.S. must try to catch up to ward off a "clear threat" to its satellites, he said, and to that end "we have to test, and we have to test...