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...walked toward a government position near Cambodia's embattled Highway 4 one day early in April, U.P.I. Correspondent Catherine Webb called to some fellow reporters, "I'm just going up to have a look." That was the last anyone saw or heard of the gentle, soft-voiced New Zealander. Minutes later, Communist mortars opened up on the Cambodian position, and when North Vietnamese regulars followed up with a savage ground attack, the surviving government troops ran for their lives...
...Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast. He retains his unique webfooted shuffle, and still sends home his jokes special delivery. But his astringent lines ("That woman is not primitive, she is feral") belong on the palate of a George Sanders or a Clifton Webb, not in a sardonic side-of-the-mouth piece. Moreover, May's improvisatory direction overindulges a slew of minor players who could be sued for nonsupport...
...March 8, New York Panther Robert Webb was shot in Harlem; a local leader of the Party immediately charged that Webb had been assassinated by Newton's agents in an effort to discipline the renegade chapter...
Some observers have compared the Webb case to the Rackley case. However, a key difference is that the villains in the Panther version of the Rackley case are the police, while Panthers are now accusing fellow Party members of the Webb murder...
Whether or not Webb's death turns out to be the first of a series of internecine killings, the rhetoric of the struggle is ominously violent...