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CUTTER’S WAY. Starring Jeff
Bridges and John Heard. Direct-
ed by Ivan Passer. At the Ridge
Theatre, Vancouver.

En route one rainy night to
fetch home his inebriated buddy
Alex Cutter (John Heard),
Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) ac-
cidentally witnesses the getaway
of a man who has just sexually-
assaulted then murdered a
young cheerleader and stuffed
her in a garbage bin.

That is the grisly beginning of
Cutters Way. But by the end, di-
rector Ivan Passer has woven
that event together with the
thoughts and emotions of a
Vietnam war veteran to create a
movie that, compared to the

usual Hollywood fare, is an ef-
fective comment on U.S. cor-
porate society. And it is certain-
ly worth the $4 admission.

A patch over one eye, one-
legged and one-armed, Cutter, a
Vietnam veteran, is holding
court at a sleazy bar before an
odd assortment of people when
Bone comes to rescue him from
a scene which is quickly turning
sour.

Later, when watching a car-

nival parade through the streets
of Santa Barbara, California —
where the movie is set — Bone
} identifies the murderer to Cutter
in a split-second recognition. It
is J. J. Cord, one of the largest
corporate oil moguls,

Cord, in Cutter’s analysis, is
guilty as much for what he
stands for in society as he is for
the brutal murder he commit-
ted. He is both the symbol and
the actual embodiment of all
those corporate power brokers
“whose asses are never on the
line but ours always are.”

The war in Vietnam, in fact,
has never ended, only changed
battlegrounds. The class enemy
remains Cord and his kind.

Cutter fails repeatedly to con-
vince Bone to work with Cutter
and the murdered girl’s sister to
topple Cord.. But then again,
Bone, an all-American golden
boy never went to Vietnam, to
re-emerge as so many did,
maimed, bitterly disillusioned

| and radicalized. Bone still fits |

in; veterans like Cutter don’t.

In one scene, Cutter demands
what Bone’s reaction was to see-
ing pictures of dead Vietnamese
| women and children on T.V.
were — ‘‘Your first reaction is
that you hate the United States,
Then you say there is no God,
and finally you say, ‘I’m
hungry.’ ”

In the context of the movie,
hungry means hungry for just-
ice, for change, a willingness to
challenge the class enemy, the
kind of hunger which is a com-
ponent of revolutionary con-
sciousness, though Cutter
would never speak of it in those
terms.

It is director Ivan Passer’s
achievement that Cutter, Bone
and Cutter’s wife Mo always
| speak and react in character,
and that the political dimension
has been fused dialectically with
their lives.

—Janice Harris

City oppose

Vancouver city c@uncil Tuesday
unanimously went on record in op-
position to the production and
stockpiling of theneutron bomb by
the United States.

The vote was in response to a
motion from COPE alderman
Bruce Yorke calling on the city to
“urge the United States govern-
ment to reconsider this major
escalation in the arms race, to enter
discussions with appropriate
governments to ban the production
and stockpiling of neutron bombs,
and that we (the city) ask our fed-
eral government to communicate
our concerns directly to the United
States government.”

The unanimous vote was in part
secured by a rider attached to the
resolution by TEAM alderman
Marguerite Ford calling for general
disarmament, and for the United
States and Soviet Union to ‘‘refrain
from provocations, and specifical-
ly the USSR to withdraw its troops
from Afghanistan.”

However, the rider failed to
blunt the main thrust of the resolu-
tion aimed at the unilateral decision
of the U.S. to proceed with the pro-
duction of the neutron bomb over
the objections of world public opi-
nion and of the U.S.’s European
allies. :

Ford has earlier attempted to in-
fluence council by securing infor-
mation from the U.S. consulate

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defending the U.S. position on the
neutron bomb. But although the
U.S. position was echoed by NPA
aldermen Warnett Kennedy and
Nathan Divinsky, even they were
compelled to vote for Yorke’s mo-
tions. with Fords der
attached.

Council was clearly moved by
nine delegations which appeared to
support the motion and by a major
speech from Yorke, who termed
his prepared address “‘the most im-
portant speech I am likely ever to
make in this council.”

Yorke called on council
members to put aside partisan
views on international politics and
“take a small step to preserve our
common heritage: the right to
live.”’

The U.S. decision to’ proceed
with the neutron bomb has united
wide sections of people in opposi-
tion to it, particularly those in
Western Europe is is supposedly
intended to defend, he said.

Citing the restricted range and
so-called ‘‘clean’’ characteristics of
the bomb which has been described
by military circles as a ‘‘cookie cut-
ter effect’’, Yorke warned that ‘‘it
is precisely because of these
qualities that it greatly enhances the
chances of nuclear war. This is the
bomb most likely to be used since
that which was dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”’

“To remain silent, or even
neutral, would be immoral,’ he
said.

Fellow COPE alderman Harry
Rankin joined the discussion to res-
pond to the suggestions of some
aldermen that the motion was
beyond the scope of a city council.
“If this isn’t our business, we'll all
be out of business — we’ll have no
business at all,” he said.

The impact of the recent ex-
changes betweeri Vancouver city
council and its sister city of Odessa
was also evident in the debate as
NPA alderman Helen Boyce cited
the profound impression her visit
to-the Soviet Union and the return
visit of the Soviets had on her ap-
preciation of the issue of war and
peace. ‘“This is a small step, but we
must take it,”’ she said.

Appearing before council to
support the motion were: Bert
Ogden, vice-president of the B.C.
Peace Council; Claora Styron of
the Fellowship of Reconciliation;
Soonoo Engineer, vice president of
the Coalition for World Disarma-
ment; David Dorrington ofthe
Campaign for Nuclear Disarma-
ment; Joseph Roberts of the Cana-
dian Coalition for Nuclear
Responsibility; Alice Coppard of
the Voice of Women; Herb Gilbert
of the World Federalists; and two
citizens, Edward Butterworth and
Mary Kelly.

U.S. aims

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‘No problem compares with the
central universal problem of saving
the human race,’’ SALT II

- negotiator Paul Warnke told. the
. forum.

Because of that importance, he
said, the U.S. was wrong to use the
Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
as the basis for blocking ratifica-
tion of the SALT II treaty, already
signed by the then U.S. president
Jimmy Carter.

Political considerations must :

not be allowed to interfere with the
more important issue of preventing
nuclear war, he said.

Warnke was echoed by both
Palme and Arbatov who em-
phasized that the U.S. was putting
dangerous obstacles in the way of
further arms talks by blocking the
ratification of SALT II.

“The SALT process is in the in-
terest of every human being in the
world,’’ Palme emphasized, warn-
ing that if there were a nuclear ex-
change, “‘the whole world would
be destroyed.”

“The public must press the U.S.
back to the bargaining table,’’ he
said, ‘because arms limitations

C Pugwash a
report Sept. 4

Eminent Japanese nuclear
physicist Toshiyuki Toyoda and
University of B.C. ‘professor
James Foulks will report on the
32nd Pugwash Conference held
this week in Banff at a special
public meeting Friday, Sept. 4,8
p.m. at the Fairview Baptist
Church, 1708 West 16th Ave.,
Vancouver.

Toyoda, one of Japan’s
representatives at the meeting is
| amember of the Pugwash coun-
cil. Foulks attended the meeting
as an observer on behalf of the
Coalition for World Disarma-
ment which is sponsoring Fri-

(\day’s meeting. y

at arms superiority

talks are Vital to global security.”

Arbatov, a leading Soviet
authority on U.S. and Canadian
affairs, was sharply critical of the
U.S. stand.in stonewalling SALT
ratification and’ further negotia-
tions. Behind that position, hesaid,
is a concerted U.S. policy to attain
military superiority.

“The whole policy is to increase
armaments — everything else is
make believe,’’ he declared.

Arbatov’s charge, although dis-
counted in most press reports, has
been given new and ominous
substantiation by a still-secret U.S.
plan to achieve nuclear superiority,
outlines of which were leaked to the
New York Times

The plan, drawn up under the
direction of U.S. defence secretary
Caspar Weinberger, calls for a
10-year build-up of weapons the
purpose of which, according to the
Times story Aug. 13, is “‘to enable
the United States to regain nuclear
superiority over the Soviet Union

within this decade . . . to build a
capacity to fight nuclear wars from
a limited. strike through a pro-
tracted conflict to an all-out ex-
ore] ees oeer ewe

The plan, which would entail ad-
ding another $200 billion to the ex-
isting budget for armaments build-
up of $1.5 trillion, includes making
U.S. missiles ‘larger and more
precise, thus enabling them to
destroy Soviet missiles in their
silos,’’ and also includes a new
manned bomber equipped with
“stealth technology”’ to enable it to

evade radar detection, the Times >

story said.
The U.S. defence department

‘plan indicates that the U.S. is

prepared to abrogate all existing
arms limitation treaties and
agreements with the Soviet Union
including a joint communique

signed June 18, 1979, in which the

U.S. and the USSR each agreed “‘t
will not strive for military
superiority in the future...”

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