Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights went out, then on again. A phone rang and we were told that police were on their way. Six minutes later, another phone call said General Zia was sending reinforcements...
...only a vague notion of how many Iranians, legal or illegal, are actually in the U.S. Last January, after the Iranian students became a highly visible minority by demonstrating against the Shah, U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell asked the INS for the exact number in the country. He was appalled to find that it was not available. To try to provide some kind of estimate, the INS got on the phone to colleges around the country and produced a figure of 50,000. Now the agency has combed through its files again and increased the estimate...
...managed to control their indignation. There have been only a few isolated attacks on Iranians. Two weeks ago, the Greenville Technical College in South Carolina voted to bar all 104 of its Iranian students from re-enrolling in the winter quarter. But after a warning from the state attorney general and other authorities, the college last week reinstated the students. Iranians will doubtless find a more permissive attitude in the U.S. when-and if-the American hostages are released unharmed from the embassy in Tehran...
During the three days of the siege, the identity of the attackers remained unknown. The first rumor that spread through the Arab world was that the invaders were Iranian Shi'ites who had been influenced by Khomeini's recent calls for a general uprising by Muslim fundamentalists. Others speculated that the terrorists were members of an extreme Mahdist sect aligned with the Shi'ites. Still others said they were not Shi'ites at all but fanatical Sunni purists known as Wahhabis. At week's end, with the Riyadh regime saying nothing publicly, the best guess...
...United States, chaos and television reign. Teddy Kennedy made it to the White House all right, but "Camelot II" became "The Ten Days" when surgeon-general designate Dr. Allen Bakke (appointed to gain white middle-class support) botched an operation. "Now I remember," sobbed Bakke on coast-to-coast television. 'It's two kidneys, one liver...