Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 of gunfire returned as unidentified rebels fired on various government and private buildings, and sometimes at random, in direct defiance of Khomeini's orders against attacks on people or property...
There should be an end to direct links between donations and naming buildings and chairs. The naming of the donation should not be part of the gift contract, though it would be understood that in most cases the donor could request and receive name recognition...
ALTHOUGH THE U.S. must shun direct intervention in Iranian politics, it should strongly condemn one of the first acts of that government. In his announcement Monday, Khomeini caused alarm by naming Israel the next target for the Islamic revolution. While his statement, and the seizure of the Israeli legation buildings for use by the Palestine Liberation Organization, are dangerous harbingers or renewed warfare in the region, the implied threat to non-Moslem minorities and the thousands of Jews now living in Iran is especially troubling. The Iranian government and the international community must at the earliest possible opportunity affirm that...
Perhaps the biggest danger facing Iran, after the stern Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile, was a direct confrontation between army units loyal to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and civilian supporters of the Ayatullah. Last week it happened. Elite troops of the imperial guard, summoned to put down a rebellion by air force cadets, ran into a wall of armed civilians. Fighting continued, sporadically but bitterly, through the weekend, and Iran seemed to be staggering toward the brink of civil war. By Sunday more than 200 people had died. At that point, the supreme army command announced its neutrality...
...direct consequence of the recent astronomical discoveries and a host of new and precise measuring techniques, general relativity is finally enjoying boom times. Thus Einstein, a genius in his own age, remains a powerful intellectual force in this time as well. The number of learned papers on general relativity has risen from only a handful a few years ago to some 600 or 700 a year. The relativistic revival can also be seen in the spirited competition by scientists around the world to be the first to detect the gravity waves, which, Einstein said, are the vehicle by which gravitational...