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...back taxes, and the feds were tired of waiting. That's why a posse of IRS agents suddenly showed up at Lewis De Soto County, Miss., ranch last week and seized a $68,000 Rolls-Royce, a Cadillac Eldorado, a Corvette Stingray, a Lincoln Continental, a Jeep, a '56 Caddy, a '35 Ford, a '41 Ford convertible, a tractor and five motorcycles. "I'm sure it's a breakdown in communications and something will be worked out," moaned the singer. "You know, you don't run from those people...
...assignment for TIME, was at the mosque at Tehran University, where a handful of people were reluctantly complying with Khomeini's command to turn in their weapons. Suddenly two Khomeini supporters rushed in announcing: "The U.S. embassy is under attack. Let's go stop it!" A Jeep quickly filled with about ten people and at least that many weapons. Reports Golestan...
...warned me, "We don't want any photographs," but as the Jeep backed through the crowd, I climbed aboard anyway. One man perched on the hood and fired his rifle into the air to clear the crowds as we careened the wrong way down a one-way street at full speed. As we neared the embassy, we heard a fusillade of shots from machine guns, semiautomatic rifles and pistols. Then came the thump of tear-gas canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy...
...stopped releasing ten-day sales figures; instead, it will give out monthly reports. After a fourth straight year of declining car sales, executives felt that bad news in twelve lumps is better than the same news meted out in 36 installments. American Motors also points out that its Jeep is not included in the car sales reports, but that big sales of that "utility vehicle" helped lift the firm's profits, to $26 million, in the quarter ended last month...
Financially troubled American Motors took a different approach. The company lost an estimated $65 million on its conventional cars in 1978, and sales of all of its cars, except the Jeep, were down 30% in November from the same month a year ago. So A.M.C. has decided to woo customers to its new, small Spirit model with price reductions and freebie options, such as AM radios and whitewalls, that could save the buyer as much as $284 on the price...