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As director of state television, a job he retains, Ghotbzadeh replaced most entertainment shows with long readings from the Koran, interspersed with films of street demonstrations in support of the Ayatullah. His maxim: "We have the ideology to distinguish right from wrong, and we should not hesitate to tell misguided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

At this press conference, Career replied to Khomeini's call for a holy war against the U.S. by insisting that the American quarrel was not with Islam but with the "misguided actions of a few people in Iran." For safety's sake, however, the U.S. ordered that nonessential embassy personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Qualities like honor, integrity, and courage don't own a place in Davis's lexicon of human motivation. She coins the term "mediapolitics"--which, we're told, signifies "the inseparable relationship between the media and the government"--and then assumes that such a relationship will turn cozy and manipulative, the...

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

But as Volckerism continues to drive up the cost of money and tighten credit much further, the cheering will increasingly be mixed with catcalls. House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas is already bitterly denouncing the Federal Reserve for "pouring gasoline on a fire in a misguided effort to put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Volcker's Pinch Begins | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Part of Lynch's mission to the U.S. is to discourage Irish Americans from misguided sentimentality toward the I.R.A. Though contributions have been cut in half since 1976, U.S. aid to the I.R.A. still amounts to about $350,000 a year, and it can come in very lethal forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: A New Effort for the North | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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