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Hardly a conventional crime film, The Clockmaker arouses virtually no suspense. We know that Bernard committed the crime; we're only uncertain about his reasons. Because the clockmaker's search for a motive is the only spring that propels the plot, the film sags frequently along the way. Only Noiret's performance keeps us from losing interest entirely as we wait and wait for Bernard to be nabbed or for some new hint about his motive to turn up. Noiret resists any temptation to make Descombes a heroic, larger-than-life figure; he is just a regular guy sweating...
True enough. But added together they produce an image of a man, relatively unknown to most voters, who too often appears vague and uncertain -and whose judgment is not always good. Even a few more Jimmy-sized bloopers could prove to be more than the Carter campaign can stand...
South Africa's future is no less uncertain. By the end of 1978, when black governments are supposed to be in place in both Zimbabwe and Namibia, South Africa will be surrounded by black-ruled independent states, whose politics and willingness to coexist with white power in Pretoria are still to be determined. How much can Vorster salvage of the South African way of life? The right to remain in Africa, certainly: all parties acknowledge that, with their 300-year tradition in southern Africa, the Afrikaners and their latter-day countrymen, the English-speaking South Africans, have as much right...
Given the rising anger among South Africa's black population, the long-term outlook for the Vorster regime's strategy for survival is uncertain, to say the least. An American official, after talking last month with the Chief Ministers of some of the homelands, whom he had presumed to be moderates, exclaimed: "If these are the moderates, I hope I never meet the radicals; there was blood in their eyes...
...Washington is examining Republican Party records in Ford's home county in Michigan and the political contributions of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, a union that has long been a big contributor to his campaigns. Whether either of these will turn out to be a real campaign problem remains uncertain, but the point is that there is so much volatility in the election that almost any unpredictable event could swing it?perhaps even the next debate...