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...appalled by the letters of Messrs. Webster and Kootnikoff [May 9]. The former eulogizes the Sandinista government's supposed popularity, and the latter claims that Nicaragua is a remarkably free society. As an American businessman who lived in Nicaragua for 15 years, I protest. If these readers are correct, why have the Sandinistas not opened the country to free elections? Why were business leaders thrown in jail for criticizing the government? Why was I advised by our State Department not to return to Nicaragua after testifying before a congressional subcommittee on the Nicaraguan situation? The Sandinistas are terrorists...
This is still Superman, of course, who is no more subject to mid-life crises than he is to dandruff. If he is made to turn sour, there must be a reason. Enter a triad of villains-Megamogul Ross Webster (Robert Vaughn), his ugly, scheming sister Vera (Annie Ross) and his "psychic nutritionist," the alluring Lorelei Ambrosia (Pamela Stephenson)-and one nebbishy computer genius gone astray. His name is Gus Gorman, and since he is played by Richard Pryor, two things are certain: Gus will be on Superman's side in time for the climax, and the film will...
...Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one of his satellites to beam down a hurricane on Colombia (where, he notes wryly, "coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown...
...documents and testimony buried in the report's 885-page appendix are potentially more embarrassing. They directly contradict an internal FBI memo of December 1980, in which Webster revealed that he had assured Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese that the bureau's 60 field offices had run a check on Donovan and turned up no incriminating evidence. In a letter to the Labor Committee dated Sept. 17, 1982, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Robert McConnell said that the FBI had "located no information to suggest that such a check was made in any field office." In his own testimony before...
Mullen, now acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is quoted as lamely saying that the FBI's duty was to pass along its findings on Donovan to the White House and not to the Senate. Webster fares little better. In his 1980 memo he stated that Schiavone showed up a number of times in the bureau's files on the Hoffa case, "but that none of these suggested any criminality or organized-crime associations." Webster has since been unable to find these references and, chides the committee, "has no idea where he got that information. The background...