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...greatest centers of Shi'ite learning. Located 75 miles south of Tehran, Qum is both a symbol and a model of the Iran that the mullahs yearn to preserve. No television aerials mar the pristine skyline; no public cinemas threaten to seduce the inquisitive; no bars or liquor stores offend the strict life of the observant. All women wear the chador and devote much of their lives to weaving fine Persian carpets. Thronging the streets are thousands of turbaned, black-robed mullahs whose entire lives are submerged in the study of theology with Qum's learned...
Insists a local leader, Lenore Johnson: "Motors and snowmobiles do not harm the environment-they only offend the elite canoe purists." Outdoor Equipment Supplier Woods Davis says that he would lose half of his business if he could not rent motorboats to vacationers. Adds John Chelesnik, an Ely fishing diehard: "I go to the woods every weekend. In one eight-hour day I can go eight times as far as a canoeist can. That's important...
...Brademas and others who favored Greece rather than Turkey. Brademas agreed to a one year suspension of the embargo if Turkey would take positive steps to end the Cyprus stalemate. The President rejected that, however, arguing that it "would be like putting the Turks on parole. It would offend them...
Carter often seems unwilling to offend his close advisers. Partly as a result, the Administration has taken inconsistent or variable stands on a number of important issues. Examples: It first advocated and then dropped a $50-per-person tax rebate; it originally warned Americans that the need to save energy was the moral equivalent of war, then claimed that its energy program would not be much of a burden because it would cut costs to consumers; it enraged the Israelis and confused the Arabs by its tangled statements about the Palestinians. Such irritating zigzagging has led one Democratic Senator...
...reporter earns considerably less-$30,000 is typical-and off-camera writers and producers often make even less. A survey of 900 broadcast stations by Vernon Stone of Southern Illinois University this year indicated that the average salary for a TV news director was only $18,200. Such disparities offend those who believe salaries should more closely reflect journalistic experience. "Are anchors worth these astronomical amounts?" asks Chicago Sun-Times TV Critic Frank Swertlow. "Of course not. As journalists they can't hack it. These are made-for-television journalists...