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58 Boston Evening Globe Wednesday. October 18. 197 Arlington voters want a governor iffloinTlii IS as angry as ar CANADA Ntw INDIAN JPx CLAIMS iif MAIN Elon, new MSm( HAMPSHIRE A JM'atl ANIrC occan Mil f. Alt AN1 PC OCC AN 'Despair a mystery without clues AKLLWIUIN KKYIKW MO VIM It Continued from Page 1 ''They keep saying pull in your belt, but how much more can we pull it in? We heed someone to say stop to high MBTA salaries and no-show county jobs and welfare chiselers. We need someone who js going to shout longer and louder than the ones who keep giving the money away." Town manager Donald Marquis sees the same frustration, particularly when it comes to voter attitudes on tax cuts.

"They know that King's tax cut proposal is unrealistic. A $500 million cut would $5 million in Arlington, and if I were to do that and still have binding arbitration and fiscal autonomy I would to fire no less than 200 town employees. But people are just saying don't bother us with the facts. They hear it year after year and are tired of it." Anthony Tiberii, owner of Tiberii aine land act set for DESPAIR A film by Rainer Werner Fassbin-der. Screenplay by Tom Sloppard.

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Slurring Dirk Rogarde and Andrea Ferreol. IS premiere al the Orson Welles, Cambridge. No Rating. By Michael Blowen Globe Correspondent The cinema of Rainer Werner Fassbinder thrives on bizarre imagery, irrational events, psychological mystery, and illusive plots.

"Despair" is no exception. The story concerns Hermann Hermann's identity crisis. He is the owner of a chocolate factory in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power; he is married to a scatterbrained woman and is dissatisfied with his meaningless existence. He suffers from a psychological malady that causes him to see outside himself. As Hermann watches himself make love to his wife, his mental disintegration begins.

The story (scripted by Tom Stoppard from a Vladimir Nabokov novel) is not the distinguishing characteristic of the movie. The key to this film is its style. Fassbinder detaches the audience from the film in the same manner that Hermann is estranged from his environment. He shoots the film through windows, into mirrors, behind doorways, and he leads us through an existential maze of confusion. The corridors of the film are bewitching, but there are no exits.

There are no plot devices or character identifications to direct us out of the wilderness. This technique creates moments of intellectual brilliance but fails to engender a strong emotional response. We don't care what happens to anyone in this film. Hermann is a bourgeois, self-indulgent, pompous bore who elicits no sympathy. The performance of Dirk Bogarde, as Hermann, is in perfect tune with Fassbinder's vision.

He wrings every idiaii OK Flower Shop, is a case in point. "When I 'came here in 1939 my tax was $185. Now bat. The teenager was caught, hauled into court and released. "1 have to hold two jobs because my husband was just laid off CETA, but money isn't what bugs me the most.

It's the juvenile delinquents. That kid who hit my son had a record a mile long but he was just let off. We should be taking the beer away from them and putting some of these repeaters in jail." Sally Wall, a 73-year-old lifelong Arlington resident, feels the same way, as do many of her friends in the Windsor Heights elderly public housing complex in Arlington Center. "We live in a safe neighborhood, but you never can tell. I can't tell you how mad I get about it." Wall and three of the other five persons interviewed at Windsor Towers are supporting King.

Hatch strategists expect part of their coalition to include the elderly who fear a cutback in public services under a King administration. "But how much worse can things like transportation get?" said Wall. "And anyway, those things just don't seem to matter as much to me." She is not the only person to dismiss issues other than crime and taxes. Wetlands protection, urban renewal, nuclear power, coastal management and transportation created little interest with the Arl-ington electorate. "It's meat on the table, that's what it's all about," said policeman Mike Kanelos.

"It's too bad those other issues are all in the background," agreed Marilyn Kenney, a Dukakis Democrat and Hatch supporter. "I just got a $15 rent increase and that just about takes care of my pay raise. That's what I have to worry about most." In addition to crime and taxes, the abortion issue may have an impact on the Arlington vote. In the September Democratic primary, antiabortion campaigner James Lyons defeated incumbent state Sen. Sam Rotondi in Arlington.

Rotondi won the primary by outpolling Lyons in other parts of the district, but he had won Arlington by more than 2000 votes two years ago. "It's the issue I care about," said secretary Marsha DeRosas. "I know it doesn't have that much to do with running the state, but it's what is important to me." Dirk Bogarde becomes a voyeur of his own life in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Despair." drop of meaning from every line and movement. His transition from sane to insane is remarkable for its subtle tension and credible drama. But Fassbinder doesn't allow him to reach out and touch the audience.

The fanatical control exerted by Fassbinder makes the lovemaking dull, the politics irrelevant, and the friendship invalid. The film is a mystery without clues. It resembles an abstract jigsaw puzzle that a jokester has strewn across the floor. The viewer is asked to put each piece in place within two hours. This impossible task might be worth an effort if the final picture was a masterpiece.

But it isn't. Unfortunately, although "Despair" has moments of evocative imagery and fascinating insight, its overall effect is numbing. it's $2600. These people tell me Proposition 13 is going to be a disaster, but it's 'not as if anyone has died in California. And if they can do it, so can we." Tiberii, ja Democrat, is voting for King in Novem-ber, as he said are most of his fellow IRotarians.

Police Sgt. Richard Abate, who voted i for King in the primary because he want-jed to "Dump the Duke," will go for Hatch in November because of the Proposition 13 issue. "This state can't handle anything like that. We are used to different services 'and we need them. Things like elderly meals on wheels would be the first to go.

I myself want to keep things like libraries, trash disposal and snow removal." Abate was one of three policemen interviewed, all of whom said mandatory 'sentencing would hinder police efficiency by making judges less likely to pass down guilty verdicts. I After the issue of taxes, crime was most on the minds of those polled, includ-iing a 40-year-old housewife named Joan 'from East Arlington. Her apartment was broken into last summer. Her husband's scar has been stolen three times. Her son recently attacked by a drunken teenager and hit over the head with a baseball 'Vi eTVJ Mr II i MJ Art stolen at City Hall An estimated $1000 worth of artwork on exhibit in a City Hall gallery has been stolen in the past ten days, according to artist Mark Chapnick of Cambridge, and spokesmen for the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA).

Eight pieces of photography have been stolen in three incidents since Chapnick's circus exhibit, entitled "Grease Paint and Rhinestones," opened Oct. 7. Sherry Jellison, OCA publicity director, said: "It's an unusual and unfortunate situation. We have many galleries and we do not as a policy assign one security person to each gallery. The entire purpose behind the galleries here is that of an open forum.

It's a known risk that is understood by the exhibitor. I know this has happened in the past, but, I hope that this instance in no way discourages artists from submitting their work." The thefts took place in the Bostonian Gallery, on the south side of the second floor. a Chapnick identified the missing art as three blck-and-white photographs, which he valued at $65 ech, three 18-by-24 color photographs valued at $150 two framed color posters, valued at about $200 each. Chapnick removed the remainder of his exhibit Yesterday, Oil glut hampering audis' cash-flow TOM SAB'aiS Artist Mark Chapnick removes his exhibit from City Hall after having eight works, worth an estimated $1000, stolen in 10 days. (Globe photo by Joseph Dennehy) DDY'S THATRS ExererStThearreS1 B.

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If the case went to court, all private and state property in the claimed area could have been tied up in litigation for several years. Legal experts have said none of the land probably could have been sold while the court case was going on because its ownership would have been in doubt. The claimed area included Baxter State Park, the largest state park in the nation. (The Maine settlement will have no effect on the claims submitted by the Wampanoag Indians versus the town of Mashpee, Mass. (The Indians' claim to more than 12,000 acres of land within the town was turned down by a jury in a trial conducted by US District Court Judge Walter Jay Skinner last year.

(The jury found that the Indians did not constitute a tribe at crucial points during their history and therefore were not entitled to recover damages under the Non-Intercourse Act.) The proposed resolution of the Maine Indian problem would be the second major agreement reached with Indians making land claims in the Eastern part of the country. Just this summer, an agreement was reached in Rhode Island giving Narragansett Indians 1900 acres of land at a cost of $3.5 million to the federal government. In both instances the agreements resulted from negotiations and prevented protracted court battles. It seems as though the trend in all of the Indian land claims has moved to negotiation because of the concern that lengthy court suits cloud title of landowners in the claim area. Gov.

Longley said the proposal had four significant shifts in federal position that appeared to be moving closer to the state position. First, he said, "recognition that this is a federal responsibility and that the state of Maine has been more than fair in meeting its responsibilities as contrasted to the federal government's refusal to recognize our Indian tribes in the past." Secondly, Longley said "present Maine citizens, non-Indians as well as Indians, are innocent and should not be penalized by any liberal do-gooders, that wanted to rewrite history and penalize or deny equal rights to one group of citizens to unfairly enrich or benefit another group." The governor's third point was "equal rights and equal protection under the United States Constitution do not allow any person or body to confiscate land" and that large landowners should not have different rights than small landowners. He also reiterated his "nation within a nation" complaints and said no group should have specal status or exemption from laws relating to the environment and taxation. Hathaway, locked jn a tough re-election battle with Rep. William S.

Cohen (R-Maine), and three independents, announced the settlement in a telephone interview from his election headquarters in Lewiston. He said the plan was "a middle ground" on which all parties can agree and he was "optimistic" it will be approved by Congress to resolve the case, which deals with the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians' claim that more than 12.5 million acres were taken from them in violation of the US Non-Intercourse Acts of the 1790s. "Once enacted by the Congress, all of the claims by the tribes in the state would be extinguished," he said. Legal experts have contended that if the claims reached court, transactions involving land owned by 330,000 small landowners, the state and the paper companies could be frozen for years because of title uncertainties. Hathaway said the settlement called for an initial federal payment to the tribes of $27 million and a subsequent $10 million payment to the Indians to be split between Maine and the federal government and used to purchase 100,000 acres from the state's largest landowners at fair market value.

But the senator emphasized a key part of the agreement called for the state's $5 million portion to be credited to Maine's previous financial support of the tribes. The federal government would then assume the state's obligation, he said. He said figures showed Maine's previous contributions to the tribes totaled $13 million. "We should be very optimistic that all of the parties concerned will approve it," Hathaway said. "They have a positive attitude toward it.

Finally, we've hit a middle ground that the principal parties involved the Indians and the White House and the big landowners can agree to." Longley and state Attorney General Joseph E. Bren-nan have held out for a full federal settlement of the case, with any lands acquired by the tribes subject to state laws to prevent what the governor terms "a nation within a nation." A CassK SassK Musical i Celebration of me 1930 40 s' PLAYS Preview Tonite 8pm Press Nite Tom'w Fri, Sun 8pm Sat 7 10pm mm Sexual Perversity in Chicago The Duck Variations by DAVID MAMET Charles Playhouse 7o warrenron Si Theatre Charge 426-6912 426-81B1 OL NlrK iston THEATER ihakespeare By Art Pine The Washington Post WASHINGTON Unlikely as it seems, Saudi Arabia is running short of cash. Although the world's leading oil producer isn't likely to go broke anytime soon, it does have a serious cash-flow problem at least temporarily. 5, As a result, the government has begun a significant belt-tightening program to help make ends meet. Beginning in May, the Saudis started quietly cashing in short-term investments such as bank certificates and notes they had been renewing automatically.

Latest estimates indicate the total transferred from portfolios to government coffers since then may have exceeded $1.2 billion. Other Arab oil-producing nations are said to be in a similar bind. The reason for the Saudis' financial problem has been the worldwide oil glut, which has dampened demand for crude oil and forced sizable production cutbacks throughout the oil producers' cartel. Today, the Saudis are producing approximately 7 million barrels of oil a day, well below the 8.5 million-barrel-a-day pace needed to bring in enough revenues to keep the government's budget balanced. In earlier days, the Saudis had imposed an 8.5 million-barrel-a-day ceiling on their production, in part to mollify Arab critics who wanted lower output levels and higher prices.

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Since then King Khalid has boosted the reductions to one-third. On the royal family's order, the government held up for two months a relatively modest $400 million in advances to contractors for a $2-billion gas pipeline being built from the Abqaiq oil field to the industrial city of Yenbu. Recently, the Saudi Finance Ministry proposed that the Arabian-American oil Co. of which the Saudis own a majority and are negotiating to take over, finance all of its big new expansion program from a scant 50 cents a barrel on oil sales. If the Saudis hold firm to that restriction, it could slow plans to enlarge Aram-co's production capacity.

Current programs are aiming for a 12 million-barrel-a-day capacity, up from the current 10.5 million. What makes the problem so touchy is that there is nothing very dramatic the Saudis can do about it. As US officials argued to Khalid last month, any sizable increase in oil prices now could hurt major Western economies and send the dollar plunging further. Ultimately, it could dampen demand for oir even more. The Saudis also could cut back on foreign imports, which have nushroomed since the Arab oil embargo five years ago.

That would mean curtailing new industrial development programs a step they are reluctant to take now. A third option would be to step up their oil production, either by boosting the cartel's overall output or by insisting on a larger share of the cartel's total production. Analysts say the difficulties being faced by the Saudis could have broad implications for other Arab nations and for the effectiveness of the oil-producing cartel as a whole. In the past, the Saudis have played the swing-man in the cartel, trimming their production levels in order to bail out other producers without raising the overall price of oil. That wind of "absorption" now seems at an end.

How well the Saudis will be able to cope with the current squeeze may depend on several factors, the most important of which is whether the world oil market firms enough. Recent weeks have shown firming in spot markets. For now, most analysts believe the cash-flow squeeze the Saudis are in will be temporary, and that the budget-paring done so far will be enough to tide the gov- ernment through to a reversal early next vear. IN FMMINGHM NOV. 1 12 Mitzi GaynorJ "SENSITIVE WITTY!" Mary Stewart.

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