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DIED. Joy Adamson, 69, Austrian-born naturalist who wrote the bestselling Born Free; after being attacked by a lion; on a remote game reserve in Kenya (see WORLD...
...Seasons--Sunday at 2:50 and 7:40 p.m. With The Lion in Winter...
Carter doesn't know how ridiculous he sounds when he threatens us," jeered Iran's tempestuous Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. "The noises he makes are similar to those of a frightened lion, who does three things: he roars in the hope of frightening off his challenger, he makes rude noises because fear causes his muscles to contract, and he sways his tail in hopes of finding a mediator...
...prove dangerous for anyone confronting a 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...
Columbia's second team All-American forward Steve Charles scored his 26th goal of the year (doubling the previous Lion record) on an impossible-angle 25-yd. bullet late in the game to prevent a total rout. Charles also scored in the late going yesterday, but his single tally came after Nittany Lion All-American Jim Stamatis found the Columbia net with a pair of headballs to give Penn State a slim victory and a third-place finish...