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'Catch-2' stands on its own Stiiul.iy. Jnnunry 17, 17 1 The Manhattan Mercury 3A Movie's madness inherent in war Swiss fine after 40 days red sports khirt the kidnapers gave RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) --looking drawn but otherwise in good health, Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bucher emerged Saturday front 40 days in the hands of terrorist kidnapers, He was released on a deserted street before dawn and wandered for 30 minutes trying to find a taxicah. When he finally did, he went to the home of the Swiss Embassy's him, th anked Brazilian authorities for their hHp in extricating him from a "very difficult situation." -In ey.change for Bucher 's freedom, Brazil had flown 70 political prisoners to Santiago, Chile, on Thursday. Two hours after Bucher's return, police and army troops threw up roadblocks around this city in an attempt to seize the abductors, who belong tq the Popular Revolutionary Vanguard. Since Bucher, a bachelor, was kidnaped on his way to work Dec.

7, police have made no significant arrests. It was a happy ending for1 Brazil's fourth diplomatic kidnaping, in which a total of 130 prisoners have been or broadcast and freeing no prisoners involved in past kidnapings or serving long sentences, There wm press reports from Brasilia that the armycominated government plans a further toughening qf its stand a statement which would proclaim Brazil would not longer negotiate with the terrorists if "any diplomat were kidnaped. This would parallel the stand of the Uruguayan government in dealing with the Tupamaros urban guerrillas, who have killed one foreign official and still hold three others. Bucher apparently will give a detailed account of his kidnaping at a news conference scheduled for Sunday. In Bern, Foreign Minister Pierre Graber told a news conference Bucher seemed in general good health but appeared a "little nervous and excited" and was complaining about his eves.

By Kent Donovan Mercury Movie Critic It's surprising how many Manhattan citizens take in highly tooted, much-praised movies before they arrive here. They're prepared to pay higher than Riley County prices to see movies soon after their release. (Maybe this is something the local houses should think about.) Many of these film-going citizens have read Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and they've been saying we won't understand the movie unless we've read the book. Mike Nichols production is so disjointed and bizaare that you need a literary guide to penetrate it. I think this is incorrect.

Catch-22 stands on its own as an understandable and successful film. That's not to say the novelist has contributed little, however, because Heller's idea, his plot and his characters are in the movie and they certainly make it go. But the cinematic production can be viewed on its own merits. Catch-22 is about madness. madness of war and also, as you'll discover; the madness of free enterprise.

This is undoubtedly why Nichols decided to film a story written in the early 60's. It also explains the movie's financial success. Paramount's made over $9 million since last June. (As much as Green Berets has made since 19C8). The, American people are in a war, costly in every way, that not one of three very shrewd Presidents has been able to explain satisfactorily to everybody.

The bewilderment, confusion, sick-and-tiredness and anger of Americans today (especially kidsand they're' the film goers) lie behind the appeal of Catch-22. Shown after WWII, which is what it's about, and audiences would have rioted in the movie-houses. So back to There's an omnipresent atmosphere ofjiigh wild immeasurable insanity about this movie. The American airmen in it ae all madmen, and their deeds are the deeds of madmen. I don't want to hear any nonsense about neurotics, psychotics, paranoiacs, schizoids or manic-depressives.

Please. This is madness. It is vast, all-embracing, mysterious, exalted to the height of divinity, hilarious, sinister, believable and acceptable. Don't bore me with clinical diagnoses. It's hugely comical and yet rather spooky when Col.

Cathcart (Martin Balsam) and Lt. Minderbender (John Voight) chat about their black-market cartel while a smoke-spewing bomber careens down a runway and explodes deafeningly without a glance from the two officers. When Capt. Yossarian, who's marvellously played by Alan Arkin, steps forward to receive a medal (for bombing with precision and grace the wrong target) and is stark naked, you flown to freedom abroad. During Bucher's captivity, however, the Brazilian government adopted a tough stance, refusing to have terrorist manifestos published counselor, William Roch, and then to his own residence on a hill overlooking this seaside city.

Bucher promptly report wl to the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern that his abductors had treated him well and seemed to be educated people. He complained that his eyes bothered him, apparently because of his chainsmoking of cigarettes in a poorly vent i' at ei room, a spokesman in Bern reported. Bucher wore dark glasses as Roch escorted him into his residence where champagne, onion soup, steak and a mousse dessert awaited him. The 57 year-old diplomat, wearing a Survey checks need for center clinic Human Relations Coordinator Larry Nicholson has sent out about 200 questionnaires to southside think it's a dream-sequence. But when the Fst.

Sgt. (Norman Fell)' explains the -laundry problem, you begin to wonder. Everybody else, including a general (Orson Welles) accepts the tale, so why not go along? The sinister sequences oddly enough don't involve though there's plenty of that) They have to do with the lieutenant's capitalistic racketeering. Baby-face Voight is terrifying, though only in fleeting episodes so short they seem unreal. And then, his overall operation is so gigantically absurd that you think maybe he's just fooling around.

Yet I said what goes on in Catch-22 is believable and even acceptable. It brought back for me my own campaigning days. As an adjutant I had to help inspect 3700 naked GI's because the colonel's wife's Pekinese had been strangled. Don't ask me why. Our CO.

we called him) used to race through the night shying pebbles at sentries to keep them alert while they guarded obsolete unusable howitzers. (The rest of us drank Scotch at the club and prayed some kid would drill him.) I'm sure the men, wherever they are, ho were in my battery could tell you similar tales about that nutty Harvard lieutenant. My consolation is that their memories will make Catch-22 as real and absorbing for them as it was for me. But the movie does not deserve th( unqualified praise many have giver it. Nichols has left some obviously hammed-up scenes in it, as wher Balsam and his exec (Buck Henry) jog alongside Welle's jeep while h( blithely interrogates them.

The film is also oddly edited. Paula Prentiss gets star billing, but about all she's allowed to do is prove she's a real brunette. And one final gripe. The film print exhibited at the Campus is atrocious. It's clotted with great jagged patches and streaked with scratches.

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