Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embassy in Tehran were paraded last week before vengeful crowds while their youthful captors gloated and jeered. On a gray Sunday morning, students invoking the name of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini invaded the embassy, overwhelmed its Marine Corps guards and took some 60 Americans as hostages. Their demand: surrender the deposed Shah of Iran, currently under treatment in Manhattan for cancer of the lymphatic system and other illnesses, as the price of the Americans' release. While flatly refusing to submit to such outrageous blackmail, the U.S. was all but powerless to free the victims. As the days passed, nerves...
Velluci's support is not likely to waver, although he may demand the mayor's office as a token of appreciation. But when Velluci, the senior member of the council, someday decides not to run again, his decision won't add his East Cambridge constituency to the CCA ranks. The Italian-surnamed successor that Vellucci-supporters are likely to find won't prove as liberal. Instead, a new neighborhood dynasty, like those built by other city conservatives, could rise, toppling the liberal coalition majority and with it rent control...
...cuts a formidable figure these days--football quarterback on a hot streak--making the long climb to his Kirkland lair. But somehow a name like that seems to demand a suit of armour and a damsel in distress. Yet Judson Burke St. John will settle for a plastic football helmet and a triumph with his mates over the dragons of New Haven...
...current problems stem from a lack of surplus capacity that makes us vulnerable to the slightest production cutback by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The oil companies have no incentive to develop enough oil outside OPEC to ease the threat of shortage. As long as demand doesn't change, they profit the most by cooperating with OPEC and keeping supply tight...
...College of Liberal Arts forum, a student government organization representing 4500 undergraduates, voted Wednesday to demand that the trustees fire Silber. The administration's effort to fire the professors was the "last straw" that led the students to seek the ouster of Silber, Jon C. Hopwood, a delegate to the forum, said yesterday...