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...sort of Muslim fundamentalism evident in Iran or Muammar Gaddafi's Libya may confirm a remark by Frantz Fanon, the philosopher of Third World uprisings: the native response to imperial domination is to fall back on what is authentic, what is resistant to modernization. The mosque becomes a symbolic safe haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Vaillant said yesterday his work, begun in 1938 by Arlie Bock, then director of University Health Services (UHS), tended to "confirm a lot of old wives' tales which maintain that good mental health preserves one's physical health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handling Stress May Affect Personal Health | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

...bitter political infighting that characterized this election and the LDP's shrinking majority signal several political changes for Japan. The election results confirm that the LDP's salad days of dictating policy and setting the national agenda are over. Ohira needs to forge a new coalition of moderate-centrist opposition groups like the New Liberal Club, the Democratic Socialist Party and the Komeito "clean government" party to get legislation through the Diet. But working in this "period of equal balanced forces" requires wily and forceful leadership...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Discovering Japan | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...State Department spokesman last night confirmed that Swift is on assignment in Teheran, but added, "We cannot absolutely confirm that she is a hostage. We have no list of names...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Iranian Students Hold Alumna Hostage; U. S. Confirms Her Status at Embassy | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...State Department officials yesterday refused to confirm or deny that Elizabeth A. Swift '62, a senior foreign services officer stationed in Tehran is one of the 49 remaining hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Iran...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Radcliffe Alumna May Be Held Hostage By Students at U.S. Embassy in Iran | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

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