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As American as apple pie.
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Warren Beatty Paula Prentiss William Daniels Walter McGinn Hume Cronyn Kelly Thordsen Chuck Waters Earl Hindman William Joyce Betty Murray Bill McKinney Jo Ann Harris Ted Gehring Lee Pulford Doria Cook-Nelson Jim Davis Joan Lemmo Kenneth Mars William Jordan Edward Winter Stacy Keach, Sr. Ford Rainey Alma Beltran Richard Bull Suzanne Cohane Ronda Copland Joe Di Reda Patsy Garrett Penelope Gillette Robert P. Lieb William Swan John S. Ragin Vernon Weddle Anthony Zerbe
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