The Week

■ Mon Dieu! C’est le derriere de Marlon Brando, n’estce pas? Not any more, mon ami. It seems Brando caught a screening of his frank new film, Last Tango in Paris, and was hugely distressed at the sight of his own . . . fanny. Snipping ensued; and the U.S. version of Tango will be a wee bit tamer than the one that’s wowing Europe. History may recall that the pendulum began to swing the other way the night Brando beheld his own behind, and . . . blushed.

■ With the ceasefire came Defense Secretary Laird’s announcement that the military draft will end immediately, five months ahead of schedule. The Pentagon is optimistic about the prospects for the now all-volunteer U.S. Army, but the President still has the authority to order inductions in case of national emergency. The volunteer draft was for years an enthusiasm of the polemical opportunists seeking to find any means of undermining the war effort. Watch them now complain about the high cost of defense.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

■ Mon Dieu! C’est le derriere de Marlon Brando, n’estce pas? Not any more, mon ami. It seems Brando caught a screening of his frank new film, Last Tango in Paris, and was hugely distressed at the sight of his own . . . fanny. Snipping ensued; and the U.S. version of Tango will be a wee bit tamer than the one that’s wowing Europe. History may recall that the pendulum began to swing the other way the night Brando beheld his own behind, and . . . blushed.

■ With the ceasefire came Defense Secretary Laird’s announcement that the military draft will end immediately, five months ahead of schedule. The Pentagon is optimistic about the prospects for the now all-volunteer U.S. Army, but the President still has the authority to order inductions in case of national emergency. The volunteer draft was for years an enthusiasm of the polemical opportunists seeking to find any means of undermining the war effort. Watch them now complain about the high cost of defense.