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...City councilmen, four state representatives and two state senators. Badillo's fellow Hispanics lamented his decision to abandon Congress for his deputy mayor's job, but his successor in Washington, Robert Garcia, is applauded as a compassionate, hard-working advocate of Puerto Rican concerns. Still, activists like Dora Collazo-Levy, 42, a Democratic Party district leader, complain that political passivity is the Puerto Rican community's principal bane. Says she: "People ask us why they should vote. We give them long-range answers...
...trip over roller skates on the landing, as well as many singles who feel the mere presence of children will cramp their swinging lifestyle. The policy also makes economic sense to landlords for whom tenants' children can create maintenance problems. But what are young parents to do? Says Dora Ashford, director of the Los Angeles Fair Housing for Children Coalition: "People with children are a desperate class of renter right...
...another direction last week as Britain took the unprecedented action of breaking diplomatic ties with its former African protectorate. Relations had been strained since 1972, when Amin drove out thousands of Asians from Uganda. After Amin failed to explain the apparent murder of one of the Entebbe hostages, Mrs. Dora Bloch, a British-Israeli citizen, and then expelled two British diplomats, Whitehall decided on the break. It was a costly move for Britain: Amin relinquished responsibility for compensating British firms and individuals for some $450 million in assets seized by his regime...
...during the skyjacking episode. Almost all of them carefully avoided mentioning the embarrassing Ugandan "President for Life" in their speeches. Yet Amin kept himself in the spotlight by his verbal tussles with Kenya. His posture as injured party in the Entebbe drama was also weakened by the fate of Dora Bloch, 75, the sole hostage the Israelis left behind in Uganda (she was in a Kampala hospital at the time of the rescue). London asserts that Mrs. Bloch, who held dual Israeli and British citizenship, has been killed. According to reports from Uganda, she suffocated when security police gagged...
...fact that the screenplay leaves the actors with nowhere to go in their roles, the performances are virtually all first-rate. Especially enjoyable is Peter Falk as the hard-boiled Frisco detective, Sam Diamond, whose uncouth manner provides an entertaining contrast to the cocktailparty elegance of Dick and Dora Charleston, played to perfection by David Niven and Maggie Smith, and the genteel prissiness of James Coco as the corpulent Belgian detective, Milo Perrier. Peter Seller's performance as the continually proverb-coining Sidney Wang is decidedly bland, however, which comes as a surprise and disappointment, since his impersonations are often...