Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Panthers first came to prominence in the 1960s by appearing with guns in hand at scenes where white police were trying to arrest blacks. The police countered by repeatedly stopping and questioning Newton and his band. One of those confrontations led to the famous Shootout. There were three trials in all-a conviction reversed on appeal and two hung juries...
That might sit well with Iranian moderates, who are increasingly fearful that the disorders might get completely out of hand and spark a military takeover. Martial law is still very visible in the capital; 100,000 troops patrol the streets, and tanks and armored cars make Tehran's notorious traffic jams worse than ever. Despite almost daily demonstrations by protesters, the generals-at least until the weekend Shootout at Tehran University -had obeyed the Shah's command to avoid the sort of bloody showdown that followed the imposition of martial law in twelve cities on Sept...
...consolation to the West is that Moscow, if Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is to be believed, prefers a stable Iran on its southern border. "You can't say that the Soviet hand isn't there," said a State Department aide about the latest unrest, "but we have no evidence. This isn't Afghanistan [where a military coup brought a pro-Moscow regime to power]. They don't want to contest us on this issue." The Russians, in fact, were suffering more immediately from the oilworkers' strike than the West was. While the Shah...
That same night Begin ordered his Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, to fly from Washington to Jerusalem to seek Cabinet support on late developments in the negotiations. This led to speculation that a tentative agreement might be at hand. By that time the draft treaty had been revised at least seven times, and most of the problems had been either solved or sidestepped. Chief among these was the question of "linkage" between an Egyptian-Israeli treaty and further negotiations on the West Bank and Gaza. The two sides agreed to discuss the matter both in a preamble to the treaty...
...Johnny called me and said, 'Why don't you come over and give me a hand?' " So said former Ford President Lee Iacocca last week, talking about how he had just made one of the most spectacular moves in Detroit's long history of high-level executive swapping. Iacocca was appearing at a press conference in the Highland Park, Mich., headquarters of his new employer with his new boss, Chrysler Chairman John J. Riccardo, whom almost no one ever calls Johnny. But Riccardo did not seem to mind the unaccustomed familiarity. Speaking of the man just...