Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time Khomeini and his advisers realized what was happening, some 300,000 weapons were in civilian hands. In a television appeal Tuesday night, the normally somnolent Ayatullah was visibly agitated and emotional as he asked his countrymen to surrender their weapons. Failing to do so, he declared, was haram (forbidden by their religion). A number of weapons were turned in, but most were not, and fighting continued intermittently. By Thursday, a holiday commemorating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, the streets of Tehran were free of gun-toting troublemakers. But only until the sun went down. After dark, the sounds...
...Ayatullah bears much of the blame for the paralysis. From his place of exile near Paris last fall, he ordered his countrymen to go on strike against the Shah, and they obeyed. Last week Khomeini, his revolution triumphant, ordered Iranians to go back to work, and most were eager to do so. On Saturday the bazaar reopened at long last, and streets were clogged with traffic. More important, workers in the oil fields were apparently heading back to their jobs...
...handkerchief in his direction. Some Westernized Iranians are not particularly impressed by this evidence of a personality cult abuilding. "We didn't take down the Shah's picture merely to put up the Ayatullah's," complained a university student last week. But many of his countrymen do not agree with this view...
DIED. Victoria Ocampo, 88, Argentina's "Queen of Letters" for nearly half a century; in Buenos Aires. Educated in Europe, Ocampo in 1931 founded Sur, an avant-garde Spanish literary magazine that introduced to her countrymen such established foreign authors as Shaw, Faulkner, Sartre and Camus as well...
Today's slogans, too often unmemorable, still encode the directions in which people are trying to move their countrymen. Combatants in the abortion arena rally around "right to life" and "freedom of choice." Opponents of nuclear power cry, "No nukes," while proponents answer that it is "safer than sex." Liberated homosexuals chant, "Gay pride"; their detractors plead, "Save our children." Blacks employ "black is beautiful" for self-encouragement and "black power" as a statement to the established order. And the elderly now demand "gray power." Proposition 13, though a California event, has become a rallying call everywhere among rebels...