Word: primed
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Though the Ayatullah Khomeini's precise role in the embassy affair was not known, it was obvious that the student occupiers looked to him for leadership. Because Khomeini demanded that the British government surrender the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, the students on Monday evening briefly occupied the British embassy in Tehran. They left after only six hours, presumably because they had learned what their Imam had not: that Bakhtiar is in exile not in Britain but in France, which also gave asylum to Khomeini before his triumphal return to Iran in February...
...Brzezinski. The President was grim-faced when he arrived at the White House at 8:15 Monday morning; he promised newsmen a statement, but then decided to wait for further developments. Meanwhile, the National Security Council went into almost continuous session. Initially, Washington had been relieved to receive Prime Minister Bazargan's promise that he was ready to help. But Bazargan's position was weak?much weaker, perhaps, than Washington had realized...
Ireland's Prime Minister Jack Lynch, meanwhile, arrived in Washington for talks with President Jimmy Carter, Congressmen and Irish-American leaders on the problems posed by the turmoil in Ulster, which indeed are beginning to show up in the U.S. Shortly before Lynch's visit began, FBI agents in Philadelphia arrested I.R.A. Bomber Michael O'Rourke in Philadelphia on charges of illegal immigration. O'Rourke, who blasted his way out of a Dublin jail in July 1976, may request asylum, but Irish authorities have moved to have him extradited...
Since the Federal Reserve action, the prime interest rate paid by top corporations has jumped another 2% beyond its previously record heights to reach 15½%, and bankers believe that it may go still higher. Interest rates on Government bonds have leaped above levels prevailing at the outbreak of the Civil War, when Confederate forces were encamped at Manassas, ready to march on Washington. The Dow Jones index of industrial stocks since early October has slumped nearly 100 points and closed last week...
...attest, was an emphatic yes. And if he is not as well known at the car-rental counter as OJ. Simpson, on the football field, bird-legged, black-bearded Dan Fouts (as in shouts) has become as potent an offensive weapon as the airport baggage hurdler was in his prime. In just 10 games, Fouts has passed for a league-leading 2,479 yds., and his 63.2% completion percentage puts him first among the N.F.L.'s 28 starting quarterbacks. On his strong arm, the Chargers climbed to a tie with Denver in the American Football Conference's Western...