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...affair portrayed the pending agreement-inaccurately-as a complete capitulation by the U.S. "Politically, we have got a fantastic victory," claimed Nabavi. "A superpower has been pushed to the conclusion that it promised not to interfere in Iranian affairs any more. We have made such a great power confess and put it to paper." Summed up Nabavi: "The hostages are like a ripe fruit from which all the juice has been squeezed out. Let them...
...saddlebag compare that with the total received from the states in taxes and other revenues - $14.5 billion -and Washington comes up $6 billion short. Admits Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was voted out of office last month: "As beneficiaries, we are reluctant to confront or confess the federal largesse because it cuts across the grain of our pioneer spirit...
...collected 800 rupees (about $100) from one of his father's customers, when he ran into the police dragnet. In the crime-ridden state of Bihar, police assumed that the young man had stolen the cash. They took him to the Rajon police station. When he would not confess, they pinned him down to the floor and punctured his eyes with needles. Then corrosive acid was poured into the bleeding sockets. Saha, whose eyelids are completely fused shut, is one of at least 30 people who have been blinded by Bihar police since the fall of 1979. Only...
...Right's hit men say they will change little in their reckless search-and-destroy campaign program. And they unabashedly confess a predilection for issues of symbolic rather than substantive importance...
...Shelby Mustangs. Price of the new Shelbys: $40,000. Detroit cannot keep its hands off a winner, though, and the classic Mustang died after 1968-of obesity. Ford gradually fattened the car, boosting its size, adding 584 Ibs. to its weight by 1971. Sales slowed, prompting lacocca to confess, "The original Mustang buyer is still there, still wanting a good little car. We walked away from the market...