Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full page in the New York Times last week and was signed by 178 retired generals and admirals. Among them: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations; General Albert C. Wedemeyer, China theater commander in World War II; Major General George J. Keegan Jr., former Air Force chief of intelligence. *The CIA estimates it at more like 11% to 15% of G.N.P. *A reference to Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, and three other high officials who sought to seize power after Mao died in September...
...prayer; 48 hours before Khomeini's departure, Bakhtiar's nervous government reversed its earlier decision to let him return. Soldiers moved into Tehran's Mehrabad Airport during the night and unplugged electric and fuel lines of Boeing 707 and 747 aircraft belonging to Iran Air, the country's commercial line. One of the 747s was to have been flown to Paris by striking pilots and crew to pick up the revolution's most important passenger. The army then surrounded the airport with tanks and closed it "until further notice." The next day troops ordered away...
...this takes place in a faceless city where everything's for sale--the whole place has an air of colorful hopelessness, a Club Med in the ghetto. "You ought to be in pictures," says a Kodak ad. The lottery offers to make you a millionaire. And through all of this is wandering Collins. He does his business in porno lounges, movie theaters, used car lots--everything's for sale and it all has to be paid...
While the relay results are up in the air, a few events are already wrapped up--more or less...
Government officials gave Air France permission to fly the Ayatullah from his exile in France to Iran. Meanwhile the American Embassy ordered U.S. government dependents out of Iran "at the earliest feasible date" because of attacks on three Americans...