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When the Shah talks about clashes these days, other nations sit up and take notice. Undeniably, Iran is becoming one of the world's major military powers. To equip his 160,000-man army, 40,000-man air force and 11,500-man navy, the Shah recently contracted for such imposingly modern weapons as 70 U.S. F-4 Phantom jets, 800 British Chieftain tanks and an assortment of destroyers, Hovercraft and troop-transport planes. In a deal that probably saved Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Corp. from bankruptcy, the Shah earlier this year ordered...
Room 13 is annually staffed with 30 student volunteers, who have tried to improve and publicize their services. Seminars with officials from various Boston organizations are held every two weeks, to equip staff members with information on topics ranging from venereal disease to legal aid. One of the student staffers has had special training in rape counseling...
...attaches to the recently developed trade with Cuba, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's strongman, now smokes nothing but long Havana cigars. Before his death, Argentina's President Juan Perón granted Cuba $1.2 billion in credits to buy Argentine products, such as road-building equipment, mining machinery, textiles and household appliances. In July, at a trade fair outside Havana the Argentines sold the Cubans an estimated $100 million in goods and agreed to help construct and equip 300 enterprises in Cuba...
...down 48 young women who had had hitherto unexplained viral hepatitis and found that seven had recently had their ears pierced. Not only jewelers but physicians who use only alcohol or benzal-konium solution for "cold sterilization" may be guilty of spreading the disease. Johnson insists that ear-piercing equip ment must be boiled for 20 minutes or thoroughly autoclaved at a higher temperature to rule out the danger of transmitting hepatitis...
Boyle and Kirkman agree that it is easier to give a computer a new program than to equip a human being with a new perception. "The real problem," says Kirkman, "is personal attitudes about women on the part of middle managers, who largely determine whether -and how far-women will rise." In an attempt to get bosses to look hard at their behavior, Boyle and Kirkman have devised a series of play-acting scenarios that they put clients through. In one, a male executive was asked to offer an important but demanding job to Boyle. "He stressed all the negative...