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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coastline is on the direct sea route from Europe to Asia; the country's northern tip overlooks the preferred deep channel of the Strait of Hormuz, 40 miles wide at its narrowest, through which pass half of the world's oil tankers. Says a British major on contract duty with the Oman army: "One battery of artillery or missiles on the Omani side of the strait holds life or death power over the passage...
...much promoted fiveyear, 50,000-mile protection plan has not done much to move Chrysler's top-heavy line of big cars out of the showrooms. Sales of the Omni and Horizon compacts have almost doubled since last year, but their production is limited because of a contract with Volkswagen, which makes the engine and produces only 300,000 a year...
Chrysler's frailty has earned it two dispensations. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser implied that he would not mount a strike against the company should contract negotiations fail in September. And Justice Department trustbusters gave Chrysler permission to buy prototype emission-control and seat-belt systems from General Motors at a big saving in research and development costs. Many auto industry experts expect that Chrysler will survive, but as a smaller, less competitive entity. The company's best hopes are that the Government would not allow the industry to be dominated by GM and Ford alone...
...that the tribunals should be more selective in their pursuit of revenge against the followers of the toppled Shah. But there will be no mercy for the Shah himself. Speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally, Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, head of Tehran's revolutionary court, issued a worldwide murder contract for the exiled monarch, several members of his family and his closest advisers. "Anyone who wants to assassinate these people," Khalkhali proclaimed, would be considered "an agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Court." The owner of an Iranian newspaper offered an all-expenses-paid pilgrimage to Mecca to anyone who killed...
...dark side of every comic. He is also, to Andy Kaufman, very real. Tony Clifton has a separate agent, gets separate billing, demands-and receives-separate dressing-room facilities when he works with Andy. The producers of Taxi wrote Clifton into the show, had to negotiate a separate contract, then, when he was late for rehearsal three days running, had to fire him. "Don't tell me," said Andy Kaufman. "Tell Tony." Tony showed up, got canned, threw such a fit that studio guards had to carry...