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...roll back U.S. influence in the Middle East, using Lebanon as the pivot. "Lebanon will be the defeat point for Israel and America," Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei said last week. The country is holding its collective breath to see whether the demonstrations will escalate. "In the mid-1970s we passed through a similar situation and the country's leaders took us to civil war," recalls Wassef Awada, columnist for the Beirut daily As-Safir. "Will the Lebanese commit suicide again...
...country after another scrambling to get nukes. Take, for example, the nonnuclear countries in East Asia closest to North Korea: South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. All are wealthy, technologically sophisticated countries that could go nuclear in a heartbeat. (South Korea had a clandestine nuclear-arms program in the mid-1970s.) But all reside snugly under the so-called U.S. nuclear umbrella--any attack by Pyongyang would bring the full destructive force of the U.S. military in response. And last week all swore off any notion that North Korea's test would make them rethink their policy of eschewing nukes...
Born in Hobart, Tasmania on Nov. 26, 1948, Blackburn studied biochemistry at the University of Melbourne where she received both a bachelor’s and master’s of science degree. After completing post-doctoral work at Yale in the mid-1970s, she became a professor at University of California, Berkeley for 12 years and then assumed a professorship at University of California, San Francisco...
...friend told the couple about the group while they were on vacation in the Ivory Coast in the mid-1970s. Intrigued, they decided to check it out when they returned to New York and, finding it to be a "connection between the theory and the practice" of their Catholic faith, joined a few years later. A stockbroker, Silas says the organization has helped him find a way to bring his faith into his professional life. Every workaday task becomes an opportunity to impress God. "You don't just buy [a stock] because it's on the buying list," he says...
...Berlusconi is a tired man. His family should take him home and take care of him." Center-left Parliament whip Luciano Violante told an interviewer that Berlusconi "has a Mafia circle close to him," referring to a former Cosa Nostra figure who tended Berlusconi's horses in the mid-1970s. Another opposition center-left insider said charges like Violante's didn't do his own side any good. "Tossing out a Mafia accusation like that in an election campaign risks a backlash," the source told Time. In a bet that Italians are focused on their pocketbooks, Berlusconi's opponent, former...