Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civil war. Without much visible success, the government of the Shah's appointee, Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, struggled for both popularity and credibility. Led by generals fiercely loyal to the Shah, the army stayed on the alert, clashing sporadically with opponents of the monarch. At week's end, Bakhtiar made a dramatic bid to break the impasse. He offered to meet early this week with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the bearded, 78-year-old leader of the country's revolution, at the exiled Ayatullah's headquarters in France. Khomeini accepted, though he vowed to make no compromise...
...filled all the cats' dishes with food. The Palestinians believe that she drove to the Christian port of Jounieh and later was spirited out of Lebanon on an Israeli gunboat. Her car, which also had been rented from the Lenacar agency, was still missing at week's end, but police found Kolberg s rented Simca abandoned beside the seashore at Mameltein, five miles from Jounieh. It contained no clues...
That was the end of Reel I. After debriefing Stiller, West German agents began rounding up suspects he had identified as spies who were supplying East Germany with information about the Federal Republic's civilian nuclear-power program and about disposition of West German and U.S. military units...
...Reduced R. and D. In 1964, research and development spending accounted for 3% of the gross national product; last year the share was down to 2.2%. Some reasons: the Government has cut its support of R. and D. programs sharply with the end of the Viet Nam War and the de-emphasis of the space program; private universities have been in a financial squeeze; industry in an inflationary era has judged the payoff from R. and D. spending to be too long term and uncertain. The toll on productivity is hard to calculate, since it would have to be measured...
Normally, companies are on the receiving end of lawsuits about discrimination against workers on the basis of sex and race. But last week Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer (annual sales: more than $17 billion), upset that pattern...