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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yazdi wasted no time in wielding a new broom at the Foreign Ministry; his first act was to accept the resignation of four deputy ministers appointed by his predecessor, Karim Sanjabi, who resigned two weeks ago. The White House is eager to learn whom Yazdi will name as a replacement for the Shah's longtime, high-living ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. In Zahedi's absence, the spokesman for the Iranian embassy has been Yazdi's articulate son-in-law, Shahriar Rouhani, 29, who temporarily put aside his doctoral studies in physics at Yale to serve...
Pyongyang is a city built on a grand scale, where everything seems keyed to the country's heroic selfesteem. Broad avenues and vistas sweep toward tall monuments that honor the struggle for liberation and pay homage to President Kim Il Sung, whose name and image are everywhere. Even the stations of the subway system, which rivals Moscow's, have such exhortative names as "Rehabilitation" and "National Building" and bear huge frescoes of the President...
BORN. To Michael Ford, 29, eldest son of the former President and a campus minister at Carnegie-Mellon University, and his wife Gayle, 27; a daughter, Gerald and Betty Ford's first grandchild; in Pittsburgh. Name: Sarah Joyce...
Tarlton organized viewers into the Panther Valley Television Co., whose members chipped in to build an antenna on the mountain and string cables from it into their homes. Thus a name that cable still goes by: CATV, for Community Antenna Television...
...rival cable operators doubt that it can be made to pay. But it is already having an impact on cable programming outside Columbus. In March, Warner began selling to cable operators nationwide 13 hours a day of children's programming, approved by Columbus viewers, under the general name Nickelodeon. Sample shows: Pinwheel for preschoolers, featuring puppets, mime and dance; Video Comic Books, showing pages of the Green Lantern and Space Ranger with dialogue balloons, voice-overs and sound effects; and America Goes Bananaz for teenagers, a mix of zany comedy and rap sessions about drugs, birth control, sibling rivalry...