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...example, said Simes, the Soviets had good reason to be pleased with the Shah of Iran: he bought Soviet arms, "paying very quickly and in hard currency," and he supplied 45% of the natural gas used by three Soviet republics near the Iranian border. Also, the Soviets could not be happy about the rise of a militant Islamic nationalist movement on their borders, since the U.S.S.R. harbors millions of fervent Muslims...
...foundering Iranian economy, wondered if Bazargan's brittle government would soon follow that of Shahpour Bakhtiar into oblivion. Reduced to defensively guarding American interests in Iran rather than actively buttressing Bazargan, U.S. officials were further alarmed by an incident in which a CIA electronic eavesdropping station near the Soviet border was invaded by rebels last week. First reports indicated that mojahedeen guerrillas had assaulted the station, seizing 20 technicians and sophisticated electronic equipment used to monitor Soviet missile tests. It later turned out that local citizens, seeking to make sure that they were paid for some work they...
Other forces, meanwhile, hovered warily at sea within electronic range of the battlefronts. The Soviet Union reportedly sent a second missile-armed destroyer from Vladivostok to join the squadron of 13 Soviet ships already cruising near Viet Nam. A U.S. aircraft carrier left the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines to join a Seventh Fleet task force in the South China Sea. Moscow stepped up its resupply airlift to Viet Nam -in plain view of Holtzman and Evans at the Hanoi airport, as it happened-and was reported to have sent senior Soviet military officers to the Vietnamese capital...
...behind this comic madness is the product of a comfortable but solitary upbringing. The last child of a Ford Motor Co. vice president, Williams grew up in Chicago, the Detroit suburbs and Tiburon, near San Francisco. When left alone, he summoned up his own world, maneuvering his toy soldiers and cloning his own versions of wacky Jonathan Winters characterizations like Maude Frickert. After two stabs at college in California, he moved to New York City to study acting. For spending money, he and a partner did white-faced comedy mime in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, occasionally matching...
Williams finds TV's ratings struggle frightening. This season he became fascinated by a short-lived NBC sitcom, Who's Watching the Kids?, that was shot on a lot near Mork. "I saw its birth and death," he says wistfully. "I watched people fight for it. It is strange for me to know that I'm being used to cut the guts out of other new series." He chuckles at the talk that Mork & Mindy may soon have its own spinoff. "What would they spin off? It would be more like a skin graft...