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10 Minneapolis Tribune May 29, 1975 Patricia Hearst condemned in poll Associated Press I mufr snail reviews t- -r Hearst conspired. In her, own' kidnapping, joinea bionese Liberation Army voluntari-, ijly and should be imprisoned if con-, virtM of charees against her, ac' Movies 1 1 cording to most people who, nnnriMi tft California PollDub- 1 I lir.JM.jMi v.i. Only 21 percent of those queried, rated the FBI's oerformance on the 1 case as "good" with 37 percent. calling it "fair," 33 percent "poc-r' and 9 percent expressing, no opin -4. Pollster Mervin Field questioned 547 Californians, finding that 52 percent'bf those surveyed think she should be held without bail and 70 percent favor imprisonment for her if is convicted of SLA activities, which include bank robbery.

V4'-' 0''XV rK I mk Av XA I watched the climactic scene of "The Day of the Locust," I found myself cheering on the losers who sack Hollywood in revenge for its false Shopes and cheap dreams. Director John Schleslnger so skillfully depicts the artificiality of Los Angeles that I found myself vengeful, ready for the final violence after a couple of hours of random, senseless destruction. Had crowd been so inclined, I might have gone so far as to join them in ritual pillage of the World 'The Day of the Locust' M. Howard Geifand Faye, represents the! film's most unfortunate bifof casting. Miss Black just can't cut it as a 17-year-old temptress.

All the subtle uncertainty that Meredith infuses into. Harry is lost on Miss Black. She apparently sees Faye as a high-school girl trying to play the death scene of "Medea" rather than West's untalented extra whose life is an amalgam of bad lines. Miss Black has a right to her interpretation, of course, except that Waldo Salt's screenplay suggests a Faye closer to the West version. "Firty-mne 01 icuie.

United Press International Marino Sgta. Donald Wllbum, loft, den, right, relaxed after they were Vientiane. I and Roger Murphy and civilian communications technician William Dar- freed by Laotians who had held them for a week In the U.S. complex in Among the other grotesques, Billy Barty's Abe Kusich, the midget, is the most, moving, fusing the anger of the downtrodden with the frustration of someone' trying to cope. There's a great moment during a cockfight when the midget tries furtively to breathe life into his dying bird, taking the bloody beak into his mouth.

Schlesinger, aside from adroitly escalating the violence and despair, has added some other, quieter touches: a scene where Homer, representative of those who came to California to die, lies listlessly on a hammock, while in the background an overripe orange falls heavily to the ground. Or a shot of the sun setting on a movie set not sinking slowly into the west, but going off in stages like a series of kleig lights being turned off. Like West said, the sun is a joke, but the joke is On us. Fair acts selected Paul Anka, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Anne Murray, Dolly Parton, Lawrence Welk and the Osmunds, Laotian students release 3 Americans in Vientiane As angry, the a Theater. Schlesinger's creation of empathy, perhaps even identification, with the rioters is all the more remarkable because he rarely does anything obvious to get us to sympathize with them.

The narrator, Tod Hackett, played by William Ather-ton, lacks even the minimal compassion with the masses that Na-thanael West's Tod had in the novel West wrote in 1939. Yet these people not Atherton's Hackett, not Karen Black's Faye Greener, not Donald Sutherland's Homer are the central characters. These are the people, West wrote, who came to California to die, lured by sunshine and oranges. But when they arrive, they find "The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates they have been cheated and betrayed.

They have slaved and saved for nothing." Schlesinger has followed West's masterful novel pretty faithfully, and what he loses in film's inability to duplicate West's crisp, imagery and precise prose he gains in the ability to bring the novel's panoply of grotesques to life: "Locust" is an episodic film told through small character-studies. There's Burgess Meredith's Harry, Greener, the film's standout performance. Harry is an over-the-hill vaudevillian who never quite did make the big time; now he sells his miracle polish door to door. Like Hollywood, you can never quite tell whether anything about Harry is real and neither can he. Even when he's dying, he's not quite sure whether he's acting.

Karen Black, as daughter, geants and a civilian to leave, and to allow newsmen and American officials to enter, the compound, itself appeared little disturbed by the occupation. Another 80 Americans left Laos pn a charter flight to Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday leaving only about 180 official Americans in the country less than a quarter of the more than 800 who were in Laos a month ago. 1 11 great sections 1 every Sunday 1 UUULJUUUU Sensational, exciting food with more fun than anyplace in town. Try Daddys maxi or mini feast with ah unbelievable orgy creation. Dinners from 5:00 p.m., except Monday.

1 Daily lunches. S.E corner of 494 Hwy. 100, 7 Call Daddy 835-5686 New York Times Service Vientiane, Laos Three Americans were released unharmed Wednesday as students ended their eight-day occupation of the U.Said mission in Vientiane. The students and local employees of the Agency for International Development (AID) claimed a major victory when American of ficials agreed yesterday morning to most of the demonstrators' demands, including an end of all American aid presence in Laos by June 30 and the turnover of all agency equipment to the Laotian government. As the gates to the AID compound opened shortly after 3 p.m.

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21 through Labor Day, Sept 1. The complete list of performers: Aug. 21 Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and the Sons of the Pioneers; Aug. 22 The Osmunds; Aug. 23 Paul Anka; Aug.

24 Lynn Ander- son and Ray Stevens; Aug. 25 Anne Murray and B. J. Thomas; Aug. 26 Dolly Parton, Johnny Rodriguez, Bobby Bare and Pee Wee King; Aug.

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26, when there is a single 8 p.m. performance, all shows will be at 6:30 and 9 p.m. FOr a ticket order form contact the Minnesota State Fair, St Paul, (phone; 645-2781). Coming June 12 TbcyOrUndo 4 I -V Carpcqtets (jfosecFdiciano ft 1 i i. i ii 'j cv ill Mm Si 11 mi ylfSSMMSSvQlL()t jf Lash LaRue in drug case United Press International Jonesboro, Ga.

Alfred Lash LaRue, the whip-crack ing good guy of Western matinees in bygone days, was found guilty Wednesday of possession of marijuana and innocent of possession of a prescription pill without a prescription. He was arrested Sept 26 on a public drunkenness charge. A search of LaRue and his car by police turned up the drugs, however. Superior Court Judge Harold Banke, who had reduced the charge from a felony to a' misdemeanor, gave LaRue a suspended one-year sentence and fined him $350. LaRue had testified Tuesday that the drugs belonged to two teen-age hitchhikers, a brother and a sister, whom he picked up near Nashville, Tenn.

He said that when the boy took out the drugs, he began preaching to him and his sister about religion and the consequences of marijuana. LaRue said the boy then recalled a death-bed statement by his grandmother saying, "Some day a man would speak to him in the name of Jesus Christ and he would recognize him as having authority and ht would do as he would say." LaRue said he then exchanged a Bible for the drugs and dropped the couple off in Dalton, Ga. He said that he tried to get rid of the drugs at a rest area, But that as he was removing the drugs from his truck police car pulled up. He said he decided "It would be a difficult stc- He testified that he then stuffed some marijuana in his pocket and drove on. He claimed be "never aw" the prescription pilL District Attorney James Bradley in his closing arguments called the story "unreasonable" and said be didn't know bow anyone could believe it "That was one of his better performances," Bradley said.

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