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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden move, a Tehran court handed down a ten-day injunction blocking further payments to General Telephone & Electronics, which has been drawing down a huge letter of credit for services rendered on a $700 million project to modernize Iran's telephone system. A team of GTE negotiators had believed they were making progress toward an amicable settlement. But then GTE's local client, state-owned Telecommunications Company of Iran, sued to halt payments on the outstanding credit to GTE worth $194 million, charging that the company had installed inoperative equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: III Omen | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

That evening, Stewart's assassination flickered across millions of U.S. television screens, shocking viewers and touching off a series of official condemnations in Washington. In Nicaragua, most of the 97 foreign journalists covering the war protested the murders in a strongly worded letter that they delivered to President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle at a press conference. The letter also assailed the country's only remaining newspaper (owned by the Somoza family) and the government radio station for an "inflammatory media campaign" depicting the foreign press as "part of the vast Communist propaganda network." Wrote the correspondents: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Murder in Managua . | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...Send a furious letter of protest to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...uncensored interviews with the Congressmen who overheard Carter's statement. A few television newscasts, though, avoided mention of the indelicate word. Jim Ruddle, anchorman at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, used the term posterior, and Tom Brokaw of NBC'S Today show mumbled slyly about a "three-letter part of the anatomy that's somewhere near the bottom." CBS's Roger Mudd alluded to Carter's remark without quoting it directly, but a copy of the New York Post's anatomically correct front-page headline was projected on a screen behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Whip His What? | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

While drawing their vaudevillian routines from the bottom of a gunny sack indelibly marked CORN, these entertainers engage in enough adventures and misadventures to stock a TV mini-series- though much of it would have to be blipped out, since the show is rife with four-letter words, most of which begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Singapore Sling | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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