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When he made that famous forecast in The American Challenge a decade ago, the French publisher and pop economist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber voiced a familiar European fear: that U.S. industry, armed with a strong dollar and high technological and marketing prowess, was rapidly turning Western Europe into a sort of American commercial romper room. So much for that worry. What now seems to rouse European passions is not the threat of a Yankee invasion but the prospect of a disruptive retreat...
Just as Washington was unable to forecast accurately the events of Iran's recent past, it also appears powerless to influence the country's immediate future. The basic goal of what Administration officials concede is no more than a patchwork policy is to support Bakhtiar's efforts to restore order. The U.S. backing for the Prime Minister, these officials hasten to add, is based not on preference but simply on the fact that he is, for the moment, the legal head of government. Says a State Department specialist: "We are not trying to push Bakhtiar...
...Harris, 39, had a better forecast record than many another New York-area weatherman. Partly for that reason he had three jobs earning him about $75,000 a year, working simultaneously for CBS radio, the New York Times and the Long Island Railroad. His credentials were impressive: B.S. from the University of Buffalo, M.S. from New York University and Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia. Despite the fact that CBS required no special education to qualify for the job and his colleagues did not take kindly to the title, Harris insisted on being called "Doctor." Then, two weeks...
...Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and parts of Kansas, Michigan and Wisconsin. Temperatures dropped as low as 19° F below zero, putting a hard crust on the blanket and turning whole counties into blocks of ice. Said Allen Pearson, director of the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City: "If you liken a storm to someone wringing out a towel, this one was just superefficient...
...expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press, he flew back into Chicago to suffer along with his constituents as they received a familiar forecast: more snow, ice and freezing rain...