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...Archie Bunker tries to prettify his look-alike house
Ever since Libya became the personal fiefdom and fortress of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969, it has been a treacherous place for Western oil companies to pump crude. In 1973 Gaddafi seized a 51% share of all U.S. oil operations in Libya and threw Texas Oilman Bunker Hunt out of the country altogether. But last week an oil company reversed roles and walked out on the colonel. Exxon announced that it was withdrawing all its oil and gas operations from Libya. The company will turn over to Gaddafi its 49% stake in oilfields capable of producing...
That pell-mell derring-do is not for the courts but for the cameras. It is the climax of a television pilot called Today's FBI. Two Sundays ago the show's first appearance in its weekly time slot outdrew in ratings another durable American institution, Archie Bunker. As the age of antiheroes apparently gives way to a public hankering for heroism, FBI Director William Webster and his beleaguered colleagues are seeking to resume their legendary role. So Webster has given free use of the agency's name and seal to the ABC network and Hollywood Producer...
...guerrillas, who are said to number 100,000, are commanded in Iran by Mousa Khiabani, who operates from a bunker in Tehran. They keep in touch with walkie-talkies, shortwave radios, "safe" phone lines and even carrier pigeons. Their strength also comes from a 5,000-member intelligence network that has penetrated every level of Khomeini's hierarchy. One example: Massoud Keshmiri, the top government aide who carried a bomb right into a meeting with President Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar, killing them and six others last month...
...other leftist guerrillas have erupted in cities as far flung as Bandar Abbas on the gulf and Astara on the Soviet border. As a result, mosques, Islamic Republic Party offices and Revolutionary Guard headquarters throughout the country are heavily fortified. "The reactionary regime has already receded into a bunker mentality," Tehran-based Mousa Khiabani, chief of staff of anti-Khomeini guerrillas, told TIME last week. "We dominate the streets. Khomeini's lackeys cannot even protect themselves, let alone enforce their authority...