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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khomeini reportedly still maintains that the present government, which was appointed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi before he left the country for a presumed exile in the United States, is illegal. Khomeini has issued a call for his supporters to abolish Bakhtiar's government and form a Moslem spiritual republic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran Street Fighting Worsens; Leader Warns of 'Dictatorship' | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...rate, this semester's topic is pro and college basketball trivia, dating form the mid-60's to the present. There will be 50 possible answers; 10-20 correct and your friends can't call you a pansy anymore. Less than ten correct and you'll probably start counting typos of justifying the creative mind. Any more than 25 correct and I feel sorry for you when you get out of here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube First Annual Basketball Mid-Year | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...half hours tonight trying to figure out how to apply for tickets to the Yale football game. (Note: that's how a sophomore talks: "the Yale football game." Later, after purchasing my first chamois shirt from L.L. Bean's and generally getting "with it," I too learned to call it The Game...

Author: By Joseph D. Bertagna, | Title: Ten Historic Moments for the Harvard Athlete | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...weeks, right up to New Year's Eve, the issue remained in doubt. Would the nation's capital remain a two-newspaper town? Or would the deficit-plagued Washington Star be forced to call it quits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Star Stays | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Radio broadcasts by the new government repeated that freedom would be restored in Cambodia. The radio played songs about the cruelty of the former leaders and about an upcoming revival of traditional Cambodian life, including "A Mother's Call to Her Beloved Son to Rally to the Front to Save the Cambodian Motherland From Destruction...

Author: By Compiled FROM Dispatches, | Title: Last Khmer Rouge Cities Fall; Loyalists Plan Guerilla War | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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