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...ancient popular belief that has recurred throughout Islamic history. In the colonial era, several "Mahdis" announced themselves as liberators. Perhaps the most famous was the "Mahdi of the Sudan," Mohammed Ahmad ibn Abdullah, whose dervish troops killed General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and the other defenders during the siege of Khartoum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Struggle for the Sacred Mosque | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Pocket Books and Paramount are counting on those 35 million fans to snap up "Star Trek" paraphernalia. These include 17 different books, a soundtrack album and a "make your own Star Trek costume" book, Suzanne Gordon, publicity agent for Paramount, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Star Trek' Opens Throughout Country | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

Alan Heimert. Master of Eliot House, said yesterday he did not know of Hill's transfer. Laura Gordon Fisher, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Eliot House, refused to comment on the proposed change

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: 230 Winthrop Residents Sign Petition Against Dining Hall Manager Transfer | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty. In 1968 Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was shot during a kidnaping attempt. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. was murdered in 1973, when members of the Palestinian Black September group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Old Rules Don't Apply | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...before emerging as a theatrical Wunderkind by producing Broadway. Though financially crippled by the stock market crash in 1929, he produced or directed some of the more notable Broadway efforts of the 1930s, including Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-prizewinning Our Town, A Doll's House with Ruth Gordon and The Green Bay Tree with Laurence Olivier. Harris' memoirs, A Dance on the High Wire (Crown; $10) were published early this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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