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...Shah believes that Huyser's mission was to "neutralize the Iranian army" when demonstrations turned violent. Encouraged by Huyser and U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan, the Shah went into exile. "General Huyser remained in Iran for several days after my departure. Having arranged for the generals to abandon Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar, head of the coalition government formed to see the country through its hour of crisis, all that remained for the fulfillment of his mission was the decapitation of Iran's army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Thrown Out Like a Dead Mouse | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...explains that the phrase was directed only at Mormon culture in general. A fifth-generation Latter-day Saint, she intends to appeal Willis' punishment to higher church authorities. But, she said, "the church has given me a lot of joy in my life. You don't abandon a good friend just because he does something unethical." As for the ERA, she will go on fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Savage Misogyny | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...performance the band seems to play possessed. The music itself is animated by excess, insists on, and receives, a response in kind. Who audiences are some of the most fiercely loyal, and some of the wildest, in rock. Abandon is the aim, and to reach that The Who acts in concert with the audience; "They bring you alive," as John Entwistle, the bass player, puts it. The excess they want, group and fans together, is a release, an explosive culmination of energy, a detonation of good will and great music. "Rock's always been demanding," says Pete Townshend, who writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...game's opening minutes, the two teams tried to out do each other in turnover innovation. As the Crimson cagers dribbled the ball off their feet and each other, coach Carole Kleinfelder pleaded with her squad to stick with set plays. Except for Ready, UMass played with equal abandon and the game see-sawed...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Cagers Drop Debut; UMass Fast Breaks to Win | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...Jacques de St. Phalle countered with a breakaway goal of his own with exactly a minute left in the first. In the second, after forcing Harvard to abandon its hard skating for some hard checking, Stoyanovich scored his second with a blast off a face-off drop to make...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Engineers Hand Icemen First Setback | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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