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Other forms of intimidation have been more direct. School buses full of American children have been stoned. One executive's Cadillac was burned, while an Exxon employee narrowly escaped injury in southerly Ahwaz when a Molotov cocktail was hurled at his car. The entire U.S. community was thrown into its deepest shock two weeks ago by the assassination of Oil Executive Paul Grimm in Ahwaz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankees Who Did Not Go Home | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

This year the government was forced to reduce the growth of spending and hold down spiraling wages. The Shah's austerity plan, mixed in with the rising expectations and rising prices, produced an economic Molotov cocktail. Government workers, their salaries ravaged by inflation unofficially estimated at more than 50% last year, went on strike. They were soon followed by 67,000 workers in the oilfields and employees in the post office, national airline, customs, telephone and steel companies and power stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An End to Iranian Dreams | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...base"..."Someone on the corner of Harvard and Mass was seen making a Molotov cocktail"...'Where did you get this from, Car 4?"..."A fireman at the barn"...Three cruisers show up--two regular, one undercover. No person to be found. No Molotov...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: No Molotovs | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

With King of Hearts, Brackman and his cohorts face not only the usual problems inherent in a Broadway-bound show (last week the truck carrying some of the sets up to Boston was fire-bombed by Molotov-happy kids, delaying the opening by a full week), but the special problem of transferring a beloved movie--a cult film, particularly in Cambridge, where it ran for five and a half years--into a popular musical. DeBroca's fable of lovable loonies running rampant in an abandoned French town during World War I has a dedicated following, may of whom aren...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Critic On Stage | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...other, more conservative members of Congress who don't seem to find plutonium all that dangerous, took more blatantly pro-nuclear positions. Rep. Mike McCormick (D-Wash.), a big breeder booster, said "not developing the breeder is like saying we shouldn't have automobiles because somebody can make a Molotov cocktail out of gasoline...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Breeder Politics | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

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