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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army then surrounded the airport with tanks and closed it "until further notice." The next day troops ordered away the crew and 2,000 people who had come to the airport with Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, Khomeini's spokesman in Iran, to see the plane leave for Paris. The group turned and left, chanting contemptuously, "Death to the Shah...
...will have the power to bring the most powerful person in the country to justice." During the Christian holidays he received Jewish and Armenian delegations from Iran and assured them that they would continue to be represented in Parliament and that their rights would be protected. When a group of women asked if he would try to bring back polygamy, Khomeini gave a rare smile and answered, "One wife is enough...
...that in Latin America Marxism has any possibilities. Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind." He is a foe of liberation theology and apparently had a hand in an important critique of it that was released in 1977 by the International Theological Commission, a blue-ribbon group of scholars that advises the Pope. "Christians do not persuade the masses to destroy violence by counterviolence," said the theologians, nor, they added, should they identify the church with any transitory political theory...
...afternoon at the Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles. A group of newspaper television critics have assembled to talk to the stars and producer of CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard, a misbegotten rip-off of Smokey and the Bandit. The questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual...
...their own way. (For some East Coast publications the bill will top $1,500.) Pressured by the Television Critics Association, which was founded in 1978 to resist the industry's publicity steamroller, network representatives submitted to rigorous grilling. Explains the Pittsburgh Press's Barbara Holsopple, 34, the group's vice president: "We want to ask real questions. We don't want to sit down with television executives and ask how they like their jobs and how many kids they have...