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Michael Cacoyannis's Iphigenia is "based" on Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis, but has been freely "translated" by the director from ancient Greek verse into modern Greek prose. At least half of the words have been discarded in the process. Something is inevitably lost, but the result is thoroughly satisfying cinematically, an impressive film which comes within striking distance of greatness, only to blunder shamefully in its final moments...
...from under the imposing shadow of Lyndon Johnson, Humphrey probably would have ended the war. In private he began to turn around relatively early. As a result of a 1965 memo he wrote to LBJ--unreleased until 1976--he was frozen out of the Administration's decision-making process. The memo read in part...
When the Carter party flew into Riyadh, the prime topic of discussion was the impending resumption of talks between Egypt and Israel at the Prime Minister level. The Saudi Arabian King and Crown Prince remained unwilling to join the peacemaking process until more progress was made on the general principles of any settlement. When the talks turned to energy, the Saudis apparently hinted that they could not hold the current line on oil prices unless something was done to check the sliding foreign value of the U.S. dollar. Their position gave further incentive for dramatic action in Washington...
When Carter and Sadat emerged from :heir 45-minute private talk, they were smiling broadly once again, and Sadat announced happily that "we have agreed on certain steps to keep the momentum in the peace process." He did not say what those steps were. Carter's own comments were designed to be ambiguous enough to bridge the current Egypt-Israeli stances on Palestine and provide negotiating room. As soon as he was aloft again en route to Paris, Carter telephoned Israel Premier Menachem Begin to report encouragingly on his conversation with Sadat...
...response to the following statement: "In the face of the international aggression unleashed against the government of our country. I support President Pinochet in his defense of the dignity of Chile, and reaffirm the legitimacy of the government of the Republic to lead sovereignly the process of institutionalization of the country...