Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lion to conclude that the animal is frightened. But given the Iranian taste for hyperbolic rhetoric, there was a certain truth in Khomeini's metaphor. Jimmy Carter, frustrated by the failure of his economic pressures to win the release of the 50 American hostages, let it be known that he was seriously considering a naval blockade. Before it comes to that, however, he is formally asking the United Nations Security Council this week to impose some form of economic sanctions on Iran-a step that has been taken only once before, against Rhodesia in 1966. Noting that Tehran...
...town near the Mozambique border: "Down with the ceasefire. Forward with the war." More important, many of the guerrillas are unlikely to passively accept any result other than a victory by the Patriotic Front in the elections. Rather than turning in their guns, a number of them are known to be caching them in caves or underground. Warns a white Rhodesian officer: "Whoever loses the election will say to them, start digging...
...tiny states of the Persian Gulf are also worried, about both their Shi'ite and Palestinian populations and about the wave of Islamic fundamentalism and unrest that seems to be spreading through the Middle East. They are trying desperately to bend with the wind. Bahrain, long known for its easygoing Western ways-it is one of the few countries in the area where liquor is sold-has, in deference to Muslim tradition, just opened an interest-free Islamic bank and banned male hairdressers from attending to women. The Amir of Kuwait has promised that his country's national...
...soured on the bishop as his TV and money-raising success soared. Perhaps as a result, the bishop was never to get a Cardinal's red hat. In 1957 Sheen abruptly gave up his TV shows. At age 71, he became a controversial innovator as Bishop of Rochester. Known till then as a conservative, he put a civil rights activist on his staff, let parish priests elect his top aide and "taxed" church construction projects to help the poor. In 1967 he called on President Johnson to withdraw all troops from Viet Nam. But when he tried to sell...
DIED. Jon Hall, 66, he-man actor who "was swept to stardom in The Hurricane, a 1937 spectacular that also helped launch Dorothy Lamour; of gunshot wounds that apparently were self-inflicted; in Sher man Oaks, Calif. A champion swimmer who grew up in Tahiti, Hall was best known for portraying loincloth-clad is landers and bare-chested sheiks (Arabian Nights...