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After the mullahs, the most visible opposition to the Shah has come from the universities, where there is frequent agitation. Some students are Marxists who preach outright revolution. Many are Muslim activists, following the mullahs in their demands for an Islamic state. Vast numbers of others are caught up in the revolution of rising expectations; growing up in an atmosphere of increasing affluence, they are frustrated by the slow pace of economic and political change...
McInally left with everything except an Ivy League football championship for himself, and while McDermott was no glamor boy, his glamorous moments as a junior during the 1975 season copped the Crimson its first outright championship ever...
Aside from outright illegality, the GSA, long a haven for lackluster patronage employees, suffers from inefficiency and careless shopping habits. Notes one Government insider: "The GSA operates on a service concept-if you don't like your wooden desk, they'll get you a marble one. Who cares? Nobody has to pay." The Washington Post revealed that the GSA was paying $56.50 for a General Electric cassette tape recorder that was on sale to the public for $46.90 at a Washington discount retailer. The GSA also paid $20.70 for a Texas Instruments pocket calculator that was priced...
Viet Nam is also suffering the effects of a sudden withdrawal of aid by China last June, and is growing steadily more apprehensive as relations with Peking continue to degenerate. Last week, the mutual dislike blossomed into outright violence at the so-called Friendship border gate between the two countries, located 100 miles northeast of Hanoi. Hanoi claimed that two Vietnamese were killed and 25 others wounded, while Peking charged that four Chinese had died and "dozens" were seriously injured...
...victim of the furious scientific competition between rival fertility researchers. In any case, the Bevis case sharply increased public concern and brought vociferous right-to-life advocates into the fray. They equated the fertilization experiments?and the frequent destruction of apparently live embryos in the lab?with outright abortions of far more developed embryos and fetuses in women...