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Right now, however, the R.D.F. seems to be planning for Mission Impossible. Its orders are to concentrate initially on countering a Soviet invasion of Iran. Kelley reluctantly admits that the R.D.F. has no hope of pouring in enough men and materiel to halt the substantial forces that the U.S.S.R. could thrust across its border with Iran. The best the R.D.F. could do would be to land a small "tripwire" force around the oilfields in southern Iran, which the Soviets could not crash through without inviting either massive bombing attacks by American B-52s and FB-111s flying from forward bases...
...surprising to youngsters that it overwhelms them. Worse, in attempting to suggest the play of memory and inner consciousness, Zeffirelli and Screenwriter Rascoe resort to such stale devices as flashbacks, hallucinatory episodes and ghostly voiceovers. There is even a moment when the action comes to a halt and, yes, a title song is played while all the actors go moony-faced. About the only cliche of '40s psychodrama movies that is missing is a dream sequence by Dali. If the producers want this one to succeed in today's market, they will have to retitle it. Creature from...
...Reagan's advisers are split on how far to go in urging the other countries to restrict trade with the Soviet bloc. The State Department would recommend only more restrictions on exports of strategic goods; the Pentagon wants a tougher approach, contending, for example, that West Germany should halt its plans to build a pipeline to import Soviet natural gas. U.S. summit planners have little hope of resolving that division by next week, so Reagan probably will confine himself to generalities...
Callahan says his union is "not planning to bring San Jose to a halt." Indeed, less than half of the unionized workers are striking, and only the city's libraries and recreation programs are shut down...
...that is running at 20% annually for the second consecutive year, high and rising labor costs and a crippling budget deficit of about $45 billion this year. Until now a succession of weak coalition governments have found it politically impossible to push through cuts in government spending or to halt the inflationary system of indexing wages to price increases. It is now Spadolini's turn to try, but he is not expected to fare much better...