Word: aires
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...Islamic republic," he proclaimed. "Not just a republic, not a democratic republic, not a democratic Islamic republic. Just an Islamic republic. Do not use the word 'democratic.' That is Western, and we don't want it." When Khomeini concluded, the crowd's cheers filled the air for minutes...
...their demands for a greater role in running the country. Mojahedeen Commander Massoud Rajavi demanded that all restrictions on the radicals' participation in the government be lifted. He voiced support for the "democratically elected" workers councils that are springing up in virtually every institution from businesses to the air force. Such groups have three times forced the resignation of officers appointed by Bazargan to command the air force...
Perhaps the sickest and most tired was Fred Silverman, 41, the president of NBC, who threw two of his biggest movies into that black hole called the sweeps. "It's tragic," he says. "We had two blockbusters, Cuckoo's Nest and American Graffiti, on the air in this February period, and yet we reached only 32% of the audience. That is absolutely crazy. But the alternative would have been to put ordinary movies in there, and the only people who would have looked at them would have been the people in my family...
...pilots, giving them a much larger choice than their predecessors ever had. "They are grinding away very quietly there," says one Hollywood producer. "They are very low key, but they are working." So far, however, the results are not very impressive. One show, Coed Fever, was taken off the air after the first outing. Others, like Paper Chase, have been switched around so often that no one knows from week to week where they will be-a scheduling sin now committed by all the networks. "When they moved our show up to 10 o'clock on Tuesday our ratings...
...bosses, Bill Paley, thinks the test will come next fall; up to now he has not had time, so the argument goes, to show his stuff. Many others doubt that he can do much until the summer of 1980, when the network will automatically command the air waves with the Moscow Olympics. Silverman himself seems to lean toward that timetable. "If I had a crystal ball and predicted what television will look like by the end of 1980," he says, "my judgment would be that CBS and NBC would be on top. But what I learned from Supertrain is that...