Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations turned violent. Encouraged by Huyser and U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan, the Shah went into exile. "General Huyser remained in Iran for several days after my departure. Having arranged for the generals to abandon Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar, head of the coalition government formed to see the country through its hour of crisis, all that remained for the fulfillment of his mission was the decapitation of Iran's army...
...preachers of the new reality. Jackson's phone has been ringing with callers urging him to get into the presidential race. Sam Nunn looked up at an aide last week and marveled at the sudden interest the media were displaying in the defense budget. For at least an hour a day now, Moynihan fields calls from his intellectual friends across the nation; the subject-the new shape of America. Universities have found in the New Yorker a new Pied Piper...
...truce was achieved by a formula that made subtle concessions to both sides without spelling them out in detail. It was cobbled together in a brilliant, behind-the-scenes piece of diplomacy by Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal and a group of British Foreign Office aides. At a three-hour meeting Tuesday night with Nkomo and Mugabe, Ramphal and the guerrilla chiefs examined each line of the deadlocked cease-fire proposals until a reasonable formula was found. Then they called Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, who is chairman of the Presidents of the so-called Frontline States.* Ramphal convinced...
These were only a few of the non-scriptural episodes in an otherwise reverential three-hour NBC-TV movie called Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith that stirred religious controversy long before it was aired this week. Defending the show, the Rev. Richard Gilbert of Princeton Theological Seminary, one of several religious consultants called in by the network, says, "There is much in Mary and Joseph that is invented. There is nothing that could not have happened...
Daltrey lives a safe two-hour drive from the others, in a 17th century mansion surrounded by 300 acres of lush farm land in Sussex. He has an American wife, Heather, two daughters, Willow and Rosie, and a son by a previous marriage. He exercises to keep in trim, but had to give up working with weights because his broadening shoulders only exaggerated his stature or, at 5 ft. 7 in., his lack of it. There is nothing much he can do about his hearing. Like Townshend's, it has been impaired by long exposure to maximum amplification. "When...