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...made by Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the assembly approved a bill abolishing SAVAK and establishing a new National Intelligence Center, without police powers. The No. 2 man in SAVAK agreed to an unprecedented interview with TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson at the organization's heavily guarded, marble-decorated fortress headquarters in north Tehran. The official stipulated that his name could not be disclosed. His views offer a revealing insight into the thinking of an efficient and dreaded intelligence agency. Excerpts...
Tiger stalwarts Bill Specht (Eastern champion butterflier), John Christensen (ditto for breaststroke), and Andy "Beaver" O'Hara, the man who outsprinted Bobby Hackett in the final leg of the 400-yd. freestyle relay to win the Easterns for the Tigers last March, will lead the defense of their home fortress...
Falk sometimes manages to escape the director's slow pace. His portrayal of the thief with the heart of gold never falters. When he accidentally discovers that the Brink's fortress is no more than a poorly protected warehouse of money waiting to be hit, he rushes out and buys his wife a 100 per cent muskrat coat to celebrate his upcoming...
Jonestown has even been rivaled as a mass suicide. The Jewish Zealots defending the fortress of Masada against besieging Roman legions in A.D. 73 chose self-slaughter rather than submission; 960 men, women and children died. The event occupies a place of some reverence in Jewish memory and is not really comparable to Jonestown; the Zealots faced the prospect of slaughter or slavery, and their choice therefore possessed a certain passionate rationality. In the 17th century, Russian Orthodox dissenters called the Old Believers refused to accept liturgical reforms. Over a period of years some 20,000 peasants in protest abandoned...
Through most of recorded history, that prophecy has seemed tragically well founded. Egypt's Pharaoh Thutmose III used Gaza as a fortress 3,500 years ago, and since then Egyptian armies have launched as many as 85 invasions from that vicinity against Palestine...