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...conclusion of a U.S.-USSR dual meet in Austin, Tex., last April. The swimmers had been attending a birthday party for an American team member, a party which sources claimed was sponsored by AAU money and attended by American coaches and Russian team members. Apparently, the swimmers violated curfew (said to be 11 p.m.), and thus incurred the wrath of the AAU: they were slapped with three-month suspensions barring them from representing the U.S. in any international competition, like that held in Cambridge this weekend...
...curfew will be established every night...
...week, Iranians prepared for a long siege. Automobile drivers lined up for miles at Tehran's gas stations to fill their tanks. Other queues formed at bank tellers' windows, while housewives thronged to the city's shops for food. At 6 p.m. Thursday, as the curfew hour approached, the capital's bustling bazaar lowered its shutters...
...indefinite general strike. Khomeini, who has vowed to oust the Shah, also urged Iran's oil workers to repeat last month's two-week strike that cost the country more than $1 billion in crude-oil revenues. As the holiday began, residents of Tehran broke the curfew and crowded into the streets to see if the new moon had appeared, signaling the start of Muharram. Government troops opened fire on the chanting crowd with automatic weapons. Official sources said that nine persons had been killed and 35 wounded, but diplomats, making independent checks, pegged the number of fatalities...
Power's comments are cut short. Martha Finnemore '81, corporate member of the IRC, has grabbed the microphone away from the Law of the Sea to read the statement on the 1 a.m. curfew. It is a thankless task. "The situation must be corrected if there is to be an HMUN next year." She is greeted by expletives and boos, and loses her cool: "You brought this upon yourself -- you're being a big pain in the ass and we don't like it any better than you do. This was not our idea...