Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...station. They sent Khomeini's officials fleeing with the admonition: "You return, you die!" The rebels were joined by local units of the Iranian army and air force and the police, in both Tabriz and the nearby towns in the rugged mountains of the western part of Iran, near the borders of Turkey and Iraq. From Qum, Sharietmadari appealed to his supporters to remain peaceful. He pointedly did not criticize their revolt, but he did rule out secession. Said he: "We want to establish the framework for giving full liberty [meaning self-rule] to Azerbaijan, but it is part...
...Islamic revolution over the long term probably poses as great a threat to the Soviet Union, with its huge Muslim population (some 50 million) as it does to U.S. interests. Moscow's best hope lies in the fact that as long as the current state of near anarchy prevails in Iran, there is the chance of a new revolution that would bring the Marxist left to the fore...
...fifth time in two weeks, the black trainee had failed to show up at his job at the Ford Motor Co. plant near South Africa's industrial capital of Port Elizabeth. He had asked for two hours off to answer a summons from the police, but failed to return to work. When a white foreman cautioned Thozamile Botha, 30, an intense former schoolteacher turned black activist who had worked for Ford for less than twelve months, to improve his attendance, Botha snapped, "Why don't you fire me?" He then stalked angrily out of the plant...
Fast food chains such as McDonald's, Wendy's and Howard Johnson's would suffer. Restaurants near population centers would surge. So would air travel, as people flew on vacation instead of driving. That would boost sales of more fuel-efficient jets, and Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas and other planemakers would benefit. But resorts in South Florida and New York's Catskills would be hit hard because most people go there by car. Roadside motels would suffer, but rents of apartments and values of houses close to city centers and public transit would climb...
...committee converted a shuttle bus route from Currier House to Quincy Square into an express route, which travels no further than Garden St. near Harvard Square. The express runs from 8:35 a.m. to 4 p.m. and makes no flagstops...