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...challenge. It is plain that he has mastered the details of the problems, come to appreciate the role of Congress, learned better the realities of a dangerous world. But taking that knowledge and fashioning from it a call to peaceful arms eludes him. A growing number of both politicians and scholars believe that because of the energy and economic crises, this nation needs a kind of revolution in thought and way of life. The principal executive of such an effort of inspiration and organization must be the President. Yet the size of the challenge and the power...
During the late 1930s, the religious community in Qum came under heavy pressure from the Reza Shah, who had undertaken a campaign to modernize his country, in the manner of Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. By 1941, as a result, the number of students at the Faizieh had dropped from several thousand to 500. Khomeini urged the new director of the school, the Ayatullah Boroujerdi, to oppose the Shah more openly. When Boroujerdi refused, Khomeini was bitterly disappointed. Thereafter he called on his superior only once a year, as required. Shortly after Reza Shah was deposed...
...might escape justice. There has been international pressure on the Bundestag, particularly from Jews around the world, to abolish the statute of limitation, but television played its part as well. After the U.S. series Holocaust was shown on West German TV, a poll showed a striking increase in the number of people approving a change...
...Giamatti's predecessor, Kingman Brewster, who joked that his supporters among Old Blues would contribute before he left (to become U.S. ambassador to Britain), while his detractors would contribute after his departure. Something like that may have happened: Campaign Director Lloyd N. Cutler said last week that "a number of people who were standoffish in the beginning warmed up enormously" after listening to Giamatti's persuasive pitch...
...manufacturers have not yet come back to the mass transit market, although there has been a recent surge in passenger demand. During the past two years, while gas prices steadily increased, the nationwide number of travelers using mass transit has risen an average 4.4% a month over the preceding year, to an estimated 27,775,000 a day. In May, as California began taking the brunt of the first gasoline shortfalls, ridership across the U S Climbed 7.3%. Mass transit experts prediet that the June figures will show an increase "in the double digits," perhaps adding...