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...responsible for controversial coverage. But it remains that while all Spanish-speaking papers have abdicated responsibility, Cox and his staff operate as the last barrier to complete state control of the media. He sighs wearily as he expresses his belief that newspapers are the peoples' last resort. "When newspapers crack up, then the lights go out, and you know anything can be done in the dark," he says...
...snarls Kim Novak, elaborately gowned as Queen Elizabeth I. "Jason," Taylor continues, violet eyes flashing, "would you put the Virgin Queen back in her cage?" A feud on the set between two aging prima donnas? Yes and no. The sniping is all in the script for The Mirror Crack 'd, a film based on a 1962 mystery novel by the late Agatha Christie. The two '50s movie queens portray two '50s movie queens who are cast, to their mutual misery, in the same motion picture. Though not intimate in their real-life heyday -"We knew each other...
...fact, the U.S. has publicly deplored Seoul's repressive crack downs, while admitting it has little leverage with the South Korean leadership. Says a State Department official: "We can offer some suggestions about what might be appropriate courses of action, but we can't do much more than that." Given the U.S. security commitment to South Korea, backed up by 39,000 American troops still stationed inside the country, Washington is not about to do anything drastic. Neither is South Korea. Says Seoul National University Professor Hongkoo Lee: "The keys to our survival remain the same: national security...
...knows how to make them look good yet soft," Gierek answered when relatives do that the wife of Poland's leader should not have to do laundry. And for all of Gierek's devotion to Communism, his aged mother has remained a devout Catholic. One crack making the rounds during the Pope's visit: "Gierek hopes to make the Pope a Marxist; Gierek's mother hopes the Pope will make Gierek a Catholic...
...tiny room was so jammed with people that Strauss had to stand in the doorway, stretching his neck to see the screen. Except for Kennedy's voice, there was no sound in the trailer. Jody Powell broke the stillness with a crack about the Senator's being in an easy position to suggest things, and the group grunted approval. Jerry Rafshoon piped up: "You tell them, Teddy," voicing the resentment in the room...