Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neighborhood paraphernalia dealers blossomed as fast as the drug culture, flowering on corners across the nation with a wide assortment of cigarette rolling papers, small pipes, cocaine spoons, psychedelic lights and other legal appurtenances for high living. But for many officials,the head shops serve as a too-blatant reminder of the losing battle against drugs...
...bleak and lifeless as a dead planet, but it is surprising how little four months of strikes and almost complete economic denial have affected the majority of the population. Paradoxically, the poorest seemed to be faring the best, perhaps because of their access to community food cooperatives and neighborhood organizations. When asked about the 'economic ruin' of his country, Tehran's Ayatullah Taleghani replied firmly: 'We do not mind at all that the economy is destroyed. In the West, the economy is above freedom. Here, freedom is now above the economy. After 50 years of living...
When the time came to mount strikes and demonstrations, a whole network of mosques, Islamic schools and neighborhood associations was in place. The Ayatullah's operation never lacked money: devout Shi'ites contribute one-fifth of their earnings, and over the years wealthy Iranian bazaar merchants contributed heavily to his cause. Throughout the crisis, Khomeini issued daily Elamiehs (bulletins) from exile counseling his followers to share their grain, return to work in the oilfields, treat soldiers with kindness, and the like. These were recorded in Persian on a cassette, then played over the phone to a headquarters...
...neighborhood was now the perfect counterpart of his inner state: Its filth and ugliness corresponded to his lust...
Members of the Red Line Alert, a citizens' group composed of three neighborhood resident coalitions, protested construction activities at Garfield St. earlier this week...