Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That adoring reception proved, if proof was needed, that Khomeini remains the pivotal figure in a revolution that is still taking shape and is far from under control. In fact, uncertainty about the Ayatullah's intentions had threatened the fledgling government of his hand-picked Prime Minister, Mehdi Bazargan. On the eve of Khomeini's departure from Tehran, Bazargan leveled an emotional attack on the Komiteh, an 80-member group controlled by Khomeini and made up of mullahs and other Iranians with fervent Islamic convictions...
...months before the invasion, Jawaharlal Nehru, then India's Prime Minister, cast aside his policy of peaceful coexistence with Communists. He demanded that the Chinese quit the plateau and ordered his own army to occupy it. Attempts to resolve the dispute broke down, and units skirmished in Kashmir. But even during the attack, the nations maintained diplomatic relations-as Peking and Hanoi have done in the present crisis...
...vote was a blow to Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who is already beset by a sharp slide in the polls and a Labor rebellion against his anti-inflation program. But the referendum is not binding, and he can still press for a Scottish assembly, citing the majority vote for it. As long as Callaghan can hold out some hope for the nationalists, he is assured of their support for a while longer, at least...
...months of the demonstrations that brought down the Shah and then Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, Is lam performed that unifying function. Several different revolutions coalesced then; now they are subdividing again. The century's earlier revolutionary his tory may explain the components. The revolutions of the '20s and '30s were ei ther rebellions of redemptionists (some times fascists, as in Germany and Italy) intent on rescuing old native virtues from alien influences, or of Communists, or of nationalists (in Ireland, for example). Elements of all three have been at work in Iran. But now the contradictions...
...figures indicate that ABC is watched by an average of 31 million people over the entire nighttime schedule, 3 million more than turn on CBS and 4 million more than look at NBC. Translated into dollars, a language TV folk feel even more comfortable speaking, each rating point in prime time is worth about $30 million in pretax profits over the course of the TV year. On the bottom line, it means, if the figures hold, that ABC will ring up about $72 million more than CBS this year, and $102 million more than...