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Police detained six suspects. Among them: the owner of the Rex, who was charged with negligence for having ordered his employees to lock the exits to prevent terrorists from entering the theater. But opposition groups outside Iran accused SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, of setting the blaze in order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program...
Unfortunately, these efforts can be compared to a statement by a city fire department that it will improve the fireproofing of buildings-without saying what it will do to put out the four-alarm blaze that is raging right now. And if the dollar's fall is not stopped, the U.S. and world economies will be in mounting danger. The cheapening of the greenback may add ¼% to 1½% to this year's U.S. inflation rate. It both raises the costs of imports, which are now about equal to 10% of the gross national product, and moves...
...plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where both parents are homosexual. There are also extranuclear families-communes, and open households- whose relationships and attitudes often seem like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose...
...fire broke out about midnight, about 30 minutes after a smaller blaze which devastated the basement annex of B.U.'s Mugar Library. During the science building fire, a B.U. dormitory on Commonwealth Ave. received a bomb threat...
...cause of both fires is unknown, although arson has not been ruled out. The fire department's arson squad was present at the blaze, which was brought under control...