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Government officials gave Air France permission to fly the Ayatullah from his exile in France to Iran. Meanwhile the American Embassy ordered U.S. government dependents out of Iran "at the earliest feasible date" because of attacks on three Americans...
Ronald D. Cuccia '82, quarterback of the freshman football team and one of the most highly sought-after high school athletes in the country, has left Harvard and will not return until next fall at the earliest...
...page celebrity. Anthropologist Donald Carl Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History called a press conference to claim that Lucy* is Australopithecus afarensis, a new species in man's evolutionary lineage. He put her age at 3.5 million years, which makes her younger than man's earliest known ancestor, Ramapithecus, who lived 10 million to 14 million years ago. But Johanson said Lucy came before the hominids split into two branches, one leading eventually to Homo sapiens and another leading to the now extinct ape man Australopithecus. The discovery, said Johanson, is "an exciting and provocative breakthrough...
What makes this sudden extroversion so fascinating is that China, from its earliest times, has been largely obscured to outside view and comprehension. Under its succession of imperial dynasties, the Chinese defined the world as "all under heaven" and themselves as celestials of the Celestial Empire. "Throughout the ages," wrote Lu Hsün, "the Chinese have had only two ways of looking at foreigners: up to them as superior beings or down on them as wild animals. They have never been able to treat them as friends as people like themselves." China traditionally looked inward, suffering a foreign
...Muharram holiday is particularly significant to opponents of the Shah; it symbolizes the Shi'ites' struggle against an evil, corrupt leadership in the earliest years of Islam. The mourning, which culminates on Dec. 11, commemorates the death of the 7th century Imam Husain, a grandson of Muhammad who was beheaded by Sunni Muslims from Damascus intent on maintaining their rule over dissident Persians. Muharram is traditionally observed with huge processions through the streets, at which the faithful whip themselves with chains or draw blood with knives and swords in anguished enactments of Husain's suffering...