Word: heards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials were certain that Teng and his aides would go on at length about the Soviets' "hegemonist intentions." Said a Government analyst who has heard Teng's presentations several times: "They've been doing that to us for six years." Another State Department expert predicted that no matter how muted Teng might prove in his public statements, in private he would stress that the primary object of his trip was to persuade the U.S. to take a tougher stance toward the Soviet Union. That, said the expert, would take precedence even over Teng's search for help in modernizing China...
...Khomeini's voice would certainly be heard, since his words and his impressive organization have kept a revolution aflame. At once simple and complex, that organization made impressive use of tape recorders and telephones to disseminate a political message suffused with an ancient spirituality. From the start of his exile in Turkey and Iraq in 1964, Khomeini laid the groundwork for the revolution in talks with his students. Taped cassettes carried his messages back to the mosques in Iran, and to Iranian student organizations around the world...
...weeks ago, Abu Hassan heard from the Christian Maronite leadership that the Israelis had assigned a new assassination squad to get him. A week before that he had protected a young Christian leader, Dany Chamoun, from a Palestinian mob, and the Christians were repaying the favor. Despite the warning, Abu Hassan is not known to have taken extra precautions. When TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis asked him a few months ago if he was worried about the Israelis' determination to kill him, he replied: "They're the ones who should be worried after all their mistakes. But I also...
...carried Canadian passport number DS 104277 checked into the Royal Gardens Hotel, also in west Beirut, and rented a gray Simca, also from Lenacar Kolberg said he was a sales representative tor Regent Sheffield, Ltd., a New York producer of cutlery and kitchenware. Nobody at the firm has ever heard of Kolberg; British officials say that no passport was ever issued in the name of Peter Scriver...
...Brachfield's broken tibia failed to heal after six months in a cast and several operations, even his doctors began to worry. Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...