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...electrocution--is an artistic device. Lumet, who directed the film in addition to co-producing with Doctorow, calls the scene an interior monologue, designed to reveal how Daniel is objectively attempting to make sense of what happened to his parents. Doctorow, who wrote the screenplay, insists it is an element in a completely fictional psychological portrait of a young man. Both reject any suggestion that, with its documentary aspects, the sequence also makes a social or political statement...
...rejecting "first use," McNamara discarded a major element of the "flexible response" strategy, which he helped to design, and which was adopted as official NATO policy in 1967. In a Foreign Affairs article last year, McNamara and three other former architects of U.S. foreign policy (McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser to Kennedy and Johnson; George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Gerard Smith, the chief negotiator of SALT I) stirred wide controversy in Europe by arguing that the concept of "first use" was antiquated and dangerous...
James Michener should have heeded these words when writing Poland, A Novel. He places well-drawn sketches within an ingenious framework, but he uses the troubled country's political structure as an infrastructure, not just as an element. No episode develops completely and the characters are too obviously molded by their place in the overall design. The result lacks both credibility and human interest...
...crime has soared. In Las Vegas, where there are an estimated 3,500 boat people, Marielitos account for 25% of the cocaine trade. In New Orleans, over a ten-month period ending last April, there were 15 Cuban homicides involving 29 Marielitos as either murderers or victims. This criminal element tends to prey on other Cubans; its tastes run to brutal crimes of random opportunity. A chilling example is a Marielito who specializes in assaulting Miami Beach's elderly. One 90-year-old victim was hurled from his bed, kicked in the face so hard he lost his left...
...inclusion of peace groups was probably the most debated decision, since they added what some civil rights traditionalists view as an unrelated and controversial element to the cause. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young defends the broadened coalition, pointing out that King, shortly before his death, turned against the Viet Nam War as an impediment to black progress. Says Young: "Without peace, there are no jobs or freedom...