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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Bhutto is now a part of history is hard to accept. As a Bengali, my shock at his execution was in marked contrast to my feeling toward him during the Bangladesh struggle. Time seems to heal wounds after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 7, 1979 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Yazdi wasted no time in wielding a new broom at the Foreign Ministry; his first act was to accept the resignation of four deputy ministers appointed by his predecessor, Karim Sanjabi, who resigned two weeks ago. The White House is eager to learn whom Yazdi will name as a replacement for the Shah's longtime, high-living ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. In Zahedi's absence, the spokesman for the Iranian embassy has been Yazdi's articulate son-in-law, Shahriar Rouhani, 29, who temporarily put aside his doctoral studies in physics at Yale to serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Odyssey of Ibrahim Yazdi | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...more than 600,000 everyday investors? Or is his main job, as Exxon's advertisements imply, to be a defender of the national security? As Garvin told TIME Correspondent John Tompkins, in an observation that no Exxon chief would have made as recently as five years ago: "I accept that we are in some sense 'different' and that Government is going to have an increasing role in setting the parameters. Our problem is in getting it to act realistically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...People accept and admire the technical expertise of oilmen; it is the business side of the industry that they suspect. They fail to understand why prices keep going up, especially when the announcement of an OPEC production cutback or an increase in the cost of oil that is a month or more away by sea from the U.S. seems almost immediately to send the price of gasoline leaping at the pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Jesus, resurrected or not, was either the Messiah of Israel or the divine Son of God, the major points of faith over which Jews and Christians fell into disagreement and outright hostility in the first centuries A.D. (Jews refer to these as centuries C.E., for Common Era). "I do accept the fact that he is the Saviour of the Gentile church. I do not think that his being the Saviour of the church and not being the Messiah of Israel is necessarily a contradiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Resurrection? | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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