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Foreign Affairs Editor William Bundy, who was Assistant Secretary of State in the Johnson Administration, believes that "we've done far more than [South Viet Nam] could reasonably have expected at every stage of the proceedings." Bundy's predecessor at the State Department, Roger Hilsman, now a professor at Columbia University, found that "the phrase, 'What we owe the Vietnamese is a peace,' strikes home...
...Cessna jet or in limousines guarded by a squad of highway patrolmen. Brown put the limousines up for auction; he flies commercial and rides in a 1974 Plymouth with one plainclothesman. He vows never to move into the $1.3 million Governor's mansion that was started by his predecessor. Instead, he lives in a modest Sacramento apartment and pays the $250-a-month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts are invariably returned to the sender: a gold pass to Disneyland, a copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Latin. Brown even rejected a volume commemorating the tenth...
...busy trying to protect the state's surplus, which for fiscal 1976 has dwindled from an anticipated $80 million to a mere $11 million; the total budget is $1.8 billion. Lamm has upset the state's teachers by increasing the educational budget less than his Republican predecessor did last year. To provide tax relief, especially for the poor, he has proposed a general income tax cut and elimination of the sales tax on food. This revenue loss would be offset by a 1 ¾% boost in the state corporate tax and a new tax on mining operations...
None of this means that the film is less cheeky (or less visually sumptuous) than its predecessor. It is merely a modest claim that its director is something more than a nimble comic stylist. He has the good satirist's indispensable quality, moral indignation, and the wit to show it only in bright, bitter, almost subliminal flashes. Perforce less of a surprise than The Three Musketeers, and perhaps a little sketchier in plotting and characterization. The Four Musketeers disappoints only because we know that there is not enough film left in the can to bring D'Artagnan...
...hour-long program, the network's new documentary unit has specialized in asking-and finding answers for-some nasty questions. Closeup has asked why the Federal Aviation Administration has been lax in pursuing passenger safety, whether Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons arranged with the White House to have his predecessor James Hoffa barred from further union activity, why fire-safety standards in the U.S. are not higher, why major coal companies in West Virginia have not paid millions of dollars in government fines for safety violations...