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...denial of political rights, and years of repressive and insensitive rule. Says a West German foreign-office expert: "For too long, the Shah paid insufficient attention to political pressure groups from right and left, dismissed them as rabble-rousers, and was convinced that his lifting Iran economically at a rapid pace would satisfy most of his people. He also thought that he could keep things under control by the traditional method of ruling with a firm, indeed oppressive, hand. It clearly has not worked...
Many businessmen and economists believe that any guidelines program would deal only with the symptoms of inflation and not its root causes, notably bulging deficits and a too-rapid expansion of the U.S. money supply. But the Federal Reserve lately has been making progress in reducing money growth toward Miller's goal of an annual rate no higher than 6.5%, and Stage Two will include a new round of budget cutting. The Senate Budget Committee last week voted to set a $42.3 billion ceiling on the federal deficit for fiscal 1979, which starts Oct. 1. That would be well...
...James Reuter, a leading Jesuit in the Philippines. But he added, "At least we are thankful it is not some of the others." In Little Rock, Ark., Bishop Andrew J. McDonald heard the news from a priest and was forced to look up Luciani in a church directory. The rapid decision, quipped the bishop, "just shows that the Holy Spirit is quicker than the speed of light...
...Berson: "The knee joint really wasn't designed for these movements." Ankle sprains are common, especially in women whose tendons and ligaments have been stressed by years of wearing high-heeled shoes. Then there are ruptures of the Achilles tendon. In the unconditioned, the unexpected force exerted by rapid movements sometimes causes the tendon, which runs from the muscle in back of the leg down to the heel, to snap and roll up like a window shade. At the net, tennis players often suffer orbital injuries -blows to the ring of bone surrounding the eye. Says Gilbert Gleim...
...with any foreign film, Viva Italia! has a tremendous problem, as very few people in the audience can actually comprehend the dialogue. Italian is such a rapid-fire language that, despite the presence of fairly complete subtitles, you cannot help but feel that you are missing a lot of what might actually be funny. But probably isn't, in this case...