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...these watchdogs have considerable power. On one recent evening on the promenade at Bandar Anzali, a popular weekend getaway for Tehranis, five guards, three of them veiled women, drove in a Nissan van through the strolling crowds. A woman was stopped and told to roll down her three-quarter-length sleeves. Another was admonished for allowing a lock of hair to escape from under her scarf. Sometimes female guards carry cotton and cleansing cream and insist on helping transgressors remove their makeup...
Scientists are afraid that the relentless Halley's mania is bound to result in disappointment. At its closest, in March, the comet will still be 40 million miles away. Halley's may appear to stretch the length of the Big Dipper but probably will not be as bright. Scientists cannot predict the luminosity because each time the comet whips past the sun, it sheds varying amounts of the ice and dust that form its glowing tail. "All this hype is making people think they're going to see a massive apparition that will scare dogs and old ladies," says...
Gorbachev did not filibuster with the usual Kremlin excuse that human rights are an internal matter for the Soviet Union and not the business of the U.S. Rather, he discoursed at length about Soviet notions of individual freedom: freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom to secure health care--freedoms, he implied, that were not universally enjoyed by Americans. He was not sparing in his criticism of America's abuse of its own racial minorities...
...seven is a lucky number. Members of the 200-seat National Assembly were well aware of that last week as they witnessed the introduction of Cabinet Bill No. 7, the enabling legislation for snap presidential elections that the Filipino leader announced earlier this month. The bill proposed an unusual length for the campaign: 57 days. In place of the Jan. 17 election date that Marcos had initially suggested for the balloting, Bill No. 7 proposed another one: Feb. 7. Admitted the President's Political Affairs Minister, Leonardo Perez: "We are superstitious...
Supplementing his firsthand experience were more extensive reports from New York Correspondent Thomas McCarroll, who also made several flights and talked with People passengers, along with employees and ex-employees, competitors, Wall Street analysts and travel agents. In Bernardsville, N.J., he and Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer spoke at length with People Express Chairman Donald Burr. "It was an unorthodox, invigorating interview," McCarroll recalls. "It's rare for the chief executive of any company to be so frank. He never avoided a single question...