Word: interational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily rumors of fresh invasion of embassies, prisons, hotels and barracks. In the early days the state radio and TV, dubbed "The Voice of Revolution," recklessly directed Khomeini supporters both real and imagined, where help was thought to be needed. At one point, the swaggering gunmen descended on the Inter-Continental Hotel, where most of the foreign newsmen were staying, and put on a display of guerrilla derring-do. A colleague of Khomeini's chided them by saying, "You're only upsetting the reporters," but minor shootups persisted throughout the day. The leader of the attack...
...College Bowl, an inter-college intellectual competition, may fast become Harvard's newest varsity sport. During the competition, which is modeled on the old College Bowl television show but not televised, two teams from different colleges match wits answering questions on a variety of topics...
Because of the vast Rockefeller holdings in Latin America, Nelson became familiar with the area and sensitive to its needs. When World War II broke out, President Roosevelt put him in charge of a new agency, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which countered Nazi pressures and propaganda in the Southern Hemisphere. Appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs in 1944, Rockefeller persuaded the countries of the continent to sign a mutual security treaty. But when Harry Truman succeeded Roosevelt, Rocky's days as an administrator in a Democratic government were over...
...ought to know. Britain's prima ballerina has narrated a six-part BBC series, The Magic of Dance, scheduled to air in the U.S. in the fall. To film the show, Fonteyn, 59, visited a ballet school in Peking, chatted with Fred Astaire in Los Angeles and inter viewed Nijinsky's daughter in Manhattan. Outside Athens, she saw the remains of a "temple of dance" built in 1904 by flamboyant American Dancer Isadora Duncan. "Isadora had a passion for children, and now the Greek children run in and out of the ruins," says Dame Margot. "They...
...world news and have cut back coverage. In retrospect, notes Robert Bartley, editor of the Wall Street Journal, the press now knows that Iran "was more important than the space or staffing given it." Last week 120 correspondents-30 of them American-clustered in Tehran's Hotel Inter-Continental...