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...there is a growing sense of alarm that the congressional investigations of the CIA, combined with repeated press charges and disclosures about its activities, have seriously damaged the agency's effectiveness. Morale has dropped among senior staffers, who bitterly claim they are the victims of a post-Watergate witch hunt. Old allies abroad are wary about cooperating with the CIA, fearing that their secrets will leak, or sources be compromised. U.S. intelligence operations against the Soviet Union have been harmed. Says one White House aide: "We're all paying a price...
...Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, ABC and NBC indicated that they were under orders from home to sign, if necessary, in order to stay on. However, most protested to Chief Censor Harry D'Penha. Replied D'Penha with Alice in Wonderland logic: "It's not witch hunting. We are trying to establish a basis of confidence...
...Beach, which had sold some $8 million worth of notes to 700 investors, agreed not to sell any more without the state's consent. Controller Gerald Lewis is now seeking to have the firm put into receivership. Equitable President Bernard Horowitz says the state is indulging in a "witch hunt" and claims that "all land-development companies work in the same fashion...
...Burning of Los Angeles"--this is the holocaust. In his mind Tod sees the people in the mob linking their arms together, their faces transformed into ugly papiermache masks, while the soundtrack overlays the scene with incantations reminiscent of the theme of the green-skinned guards of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. The whole thing is too inane to be believed...
...gunrunner, Nicholson at first seems all wrong. The most verbally charming of all American actors, he seems in a stasis. Using a monotone reminiscent of a robot's, he flaccidly interviews the only figures he can understand or even find, western-supported African fat cats. When he interviews a witch-doctor who turns the news camera on him. Nicholson has got to turn it off immediately, before it records the vacuity. It is a powerful statement by Antonioni, as his camera slaps down other film makers who have looked at the motion picture image as substitution for an exposition...