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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aborted coup sparks a giant man hunt and an attempted assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: STALKING THE CONSPIRATORS | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...flames of vengeance once again raged over the Islamic Republic of Iran. The government took the extraordinary step last week of closing its borders for four days as officials marshaled a gigantic man hunt for fugitives accused of involvement in a military plot to overthrow the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. The vengeance even spread abroad as a hit squad in Paris tried to assassinate former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar, the man many Iranians believed had masterminded the July 9 coup attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: STALKING THE CONSPIRATORS | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

After frustrating the coup attempt, officials hastily formed a Headquarters for Coordinating the Neutralization of the Conspiracy and launched a nationwide man hunt. The government's actions were accompanied by popular frenzy. Mobs jammed the streets to denounce the conspiracy and mourn their latest martyr: Sergeant Mohammed Esmail Ghorbani, killed by one of the accused plotters, whom he was seeking to arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: STALKING THE CONSPIRATORS | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...plot here but that doesn't matter. The best choice these neophyte directors made was using serious actors. Aside from Graves, Robert "Name Your Game" Stack fills in as the pilot who's handed the assignment of guiding flight 209 to the ground and Lloyd "Sea Hunt" Bridges plays the glue-sniffing, heavy-drinking chain-smoking director of the Chicago airport. Mixed in with the emergency, as one might guess, is a romance between the Air Force pilot turned taxi driver, played by the ingenuous Robert Hays, and the stewardess who takes over the co-pilot's chair from Kareem...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beneath the Planet of the 747s | 7/15/1980 | See Source »

That is also the approach being taken by the Hunt family of Texas, whose elegant 145-room mansion on Turtle Creek will open in Dallas next February; its restaurant will be managed by veterans of Manhattan's famed "21" Club. In Los Angeles the 117-suite L'Ermitage, completed in 1976 at a cost of $12 million, is drawing trade away from the Beverly Hilton and other giants, with amenities that include a Jacuzzi whirlpool filled with mineral water and free transportation around town by Rolls-Royce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Food, a Fire and a Little Quiet | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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