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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evacuees leave behind a land spent by violence, anger and economic chaos. In the past two months, the inflation rate is believed to have risen from 50% to 200% or more. In addition to airline, Telex and telephone workers, bank employees, civil servants and teachers were all out on strike. The severest problems were caused by the virtual shutdown of the oilfields. At the huge loading terminal in the port of Kharg Island, one eyewitness told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis that Iranian workers sullenly half loaded a foreign tanker and then told its crew: "We don't need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Unity Against the Shah | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Pawn the Library. Desperate to meet a payroll, the University of Miami once hocked $1 million worth of library books to Miami's Pan American Bank in order to secure a $400,000 short-term loan. Fortunately, that was some years ago, and today the library is safely out of hock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Stratagems for Staying Solvent | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...relationship was a marriage in all but name. He will argue that Michelle agreed to give up a promising singing career to care for Marvin in return for half of his earnings. His brief never mentions the bedroom but rather speaks in terms of "housekeeper, cook, confidante" and "joint bank accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Paladin of Paramours | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

There were always stories about how the former head of the intelligence agency was now on the board of the corporation whose president had a brother at the World Bank who arranged billion-dollar loans so that a third world nation with a new right-wing regime propped up by the intelligence agency could finance a construction project proposed by the corporation...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Acts of God and Other Co-Conspirators | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...Manual, like Hopscotch, is a novel of spiritual exile. In A Manual, Hopscotch's beat Left Bank "Club" graduates to the counterculture "Screwery" which is more preoccupied with politics than with Zen and jazz. Different from those of the "Club," the "Screwery's" members do not cut themselves off from mankind, but desire society's upheaval. They have found a purpose to life: "To change reality for everyone...everyone is (ought to be) what I am...to meld the real with mankind...there is only duty and that's to find the true course. Method: revolution...

Author: By Judy E. Matloff, | Title: Rebels Without A Cause | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

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