Word: aire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overturned furniture and mangled typewriters." The scene stirred memories for Scott: "I recalled that on the last night of U.S. bombing in Cambodia, the windows of the old hotel were rattling as usual. Then came dawn and a welcome silence. I flew over to Bangkok, drove north to Korat Air Force Base and interviewed the kid said to have dropped the last bomb." Scott's welcome last week was not marred by the hostilities of the past. "The Cambodians were glad to see us," he says. "They were grateful for the food and medicine that Operation California brought...
...social fallout hangs heavy in the mountain air. A rock group came to play at the high school a few years back and was threatened with nonpayment if its members dared live up to their reputation for dropping acid. Yet even the performers were aghast at the drugs being passed around by the local students. The usual tales of suburban wife swapping, alcoholism, mental illness, divorce and suicide seem intensified by isolation. Laura Fermi, widow of Physicist Enrico Fermi, once described the genesis of the town's problems: "We were too many of a kind, too close...
Early Sunday morning the Shah left the hospital and was driven to New York's La Guardia airport. Accompanied by his wife, he boarded a U.S. Air Force DC-9, which flew directly to Kelly Air Force Base outside San Antonio. The Shah entered Wilford Hall hospital at nearby Lackland Air Force Base for what an Administration spokesman called "a period of recuperation under medical supervision." The White House, which had worked out the details of the transfer Saturday night, said that it would continue to assist the Shah in finding a permanent residence. He had very few choices...
...military action against Iran. But U.S. policymakers insisted that the rumors were untrue. General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly counseled caution; so, too, did the normally hawkish Brzezinski. Said a high Administration official: "Nobody but nobody believes the hostages can be saved with an air strike...
...battling cancer, unwelcome in most countries of the world, and bearing a price on his head (an all-expenses-paid pilgrimage to Mecca, offered by the revolutionaries who overthrew him to anyone who succeeds in killing him). Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and his aides are filling the air with tirades against the Shah as a "U.S. puppet," a Hitlerian "criminal" who tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of his subjects, a thief who looted Iran of untold billions. At the other extreme, the Shah's defenders cite the praises heaped on him by seven U.S. Presidents, beginning with Harry Truman...