Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Delaware police dubbed him the Gentleman Bandit after he had held up six Wilmington area stores last winter. Not only did he brandish a chrome-plated pistol, but he was a natty dresser who always wore a fedora and treated his victims with elaborate courtesy. He once even apologetically...
The prosecution dropped all charges against the priest. "The state extends a sincere apology to Father Pagano," said Delaware Attorney General Richard Gebelein. Yet several policemen still suspect Pagano. "I'm convinced that we had the right man," says one. "If I didn't think he did it...
Angered by the challenges to his authority, Khomeini lashed out in a speech to his followers in the holy city of Qum. In effect he declared: No more Mr. Nice Guy. His government had made a mistake, Khomeini said, in trying to be tolerant toward the dissident groups, especially leftists...
That seemed to be a clear call for a crackdown on the opposition, and the government took the cue. It immediately closed down 44 papers and magazines, and expelled five more Western correspondents (bringing to eleven the number deported thus far). In a particularly provocative move, it evicted a leftist...
The chief targets of the new measures, however, were the mutinous minority groups and their leftist allies. In another fiery speech, Khomeini said flatly: "If we had set up scaffolds in public squares and strung up these devils at the beginning of the revolution, we would have had none of...