Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From his home in exile near Paris, Ayatullah Khomeini, the 80-year-old spiritual leader of Iran's Shi'ite Muslims called for an indefinite general strike. Khomeini, who has vowed to oust the Shah, also urged Iran's oil workers to repeat last month's two-week strike that cost the country more than $1 billion in crude-oil revenues. As the holiday began, residents of Tehran broke the curfew and crowded into the streets to see if the new moon had appeared, signaling the start of Muharram. Government troops opened fire on the chanting...
Fearing that provocateurs might incite confrontations with the Shah's troops, the government last week banned all public gatherings, except for services In mosques. Violations, warned General Gholam Reza Azhari, Premier of Iran's , military government, would be dealt with "mercilessly...
...text of the U.S. answers to Hussein's questions. In many cases, both are perfunctory and nonprovocative. The King's first question, for example, was whether the U.S. intended to be a full partner in future negotiations on the West Bank, Gaza "and the Palestinian question in general." Answer: "Yes, the U.S. will be a full partner in all the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations [and] will use its full influence to see that the negotiations are brought to a successful conclusion...
...Frankly," admitted a stunned Premier Takeo Fukuda, "I was astounded." "It was a surprise to me, too," aid Masayoshi Ohira, secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.). What startled them and their countrymen last week was the result of a four-way race for Fukuda's job as the leader of the L.D.P. and, therefore, of Japan's government. Though the experts had forecast a dull election in which the urbane Fukuda, 73, would easily win a second term, he was thoroughly whipped by Ohira, 68, a deliberate, unassuming technocrat known in Japanese politics...
...money) by choosing their leader this time in a kind of national primary in which all 1.5 million party members would be eligible to vote (87% did). Fukuda emphasized his foreign policy accomplishments, such as the recent ratification of a peace treaty with China. Ohira, who as party secretary-general knew where the new votes were, went around the country emphasizing domestic issues, such as the need for improving rural living conditions...