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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long before oil started to become as costly as gin, before the quest for "alternate energy sources" became the moral equivalent of war and before he started writing this week's cover story on "The Cooling of America," TIME Contributor Jack Skow bought his first woodburning stove. A city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Nixon can never resist a chance to get in a lick at the press. About the Shah's fallen reputation, Nixon is dead right, but not simply because Khomeini manipulated the press: the Ayatullah has been able to take noisy advantage of a bizarre news brownout, a month of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Self-Restraint Brownout | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

With their appetite for visual excitement, newscasts often open with the latest rant from the cross-legged Ayatullah, then move to shots of Death-to-the-Shah street crowds, who by now economically wave their fists most fervently when they see the camera's red light upon them. Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Self-Restraint Brownout | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The Shah has been the real loser. While hostages are in jeopardy, the only minidebate that has been allowed to erupt publicly is over who-let-the-Shah-in. When Carter's foreign policy again becomes fair game for partisan attack, it is doubtful that the strengths of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Self-Restraint Brownout | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Khomeini did not create U.S. television's imbalance between self-restraint and rant, but he has profited from it. Once he seemed bent on expelling all foreign correspondents, but now more than 200 of them are "persona grata" in a land where American diplomats are not. Journalists walk the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Self-Restraint Brownout | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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