Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police detained six suspects. Among them: the owner of the Rex, who was charged with negligence for having ordered his employees to lock the exits to prevent terrorists from entering the theater. But opposition groups outside Iran accused SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, of setting the blaze in order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program...
...fill the inkless void left by the closing of the Daily News, Post and New York Times (combined circulation: 3.4 million), three interim daily tabloids were born of the strike. The trio, in order of appearance...
...with what U.A.W. members get in the North. Unions, ironically, have been victimized by their own success in making company-paid pensions, medical insurance, longer vacations and similar fringes universal. Even the sons and daughters of diehard unionists feel they have no need to sign a union card in order to enjoy high pay, generous benefits and pleasant working conditions at big, high-technology firms like IBM, Kodak and Texas Instruments...
...loss of power that he hints darkly at a resort to violence. Says he: "In my lifetime, no group has ever gotten justice in this country without lawlessness. So if we want to see change, then we may have to stop having such a high regard for law-and-order...
Since then the boosters have been doing much brawling, mostly over what urban-area Jaycees see as the organization's dominant rural conservatism. Massachusetts Jaycees officials have voted to battle the no-women order with a lawsuit, even though a 1974 ruling by a federal appeals court upheld the group's right to ban women. Leaders of the all-male Louisville chapter, largest in the organization (735 members), have called for admission of females. So, less surprisingly, has the Chicago chapter (234 men, 136 women), which withdrew from the national organization in protest. Complains Chapter President Joan Petranovich, a secretary...