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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since September, all political activity has been banned by the military government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, an army general. In an effort to avoid a bloodbath, the Shah finally decreed that the government would consider the protest parade a legal demonstration of national mourning. By exercising such restraint, he...
As Premier, she was ruthlessly realistic throughout the so-called war of attrition; her response to any Arab raid or act of terrorism was to order even heavier counterviolence. "We are finished with gimmicks-with observers and emergency forces and demilitarized zones and armistices," she said. "It is a mistake...
One thing is certain: the convention is wreaking irreversible changes in the nation's topography, economy and patterns of social behavior. Consider the urban landscape. Cavernous convention centers, often municipally financed and usually little more than a big enclosed space, are popping up across the country like second-story men...
Can the nation go on meeting like this? As entrenched as it has become in the mores, folkways and lower economics of contemporary living, the convention business faces a few hangovers of its own. One is the National Organization for Women's convention boycott of the 15 states that have...
Consider, for instance, some of the NUS demands: increased student aid until all student fees are abolished, systematic national planning of education, elimination of financial barriers preventing international students from studying in Canada, greater affirmative action policies in the realm of education, and the elimination of unemployment in Canada through...