Word: reale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...isolate Iran and make it appear as an irrational outlaw in world opinion. Iranian diplomats privately expressed their sense of embarrassment about the embassy seizure to their Arab colleagues, who in turn passed the message on to Washington. But the big question remained: would such pressures have any real impact on the enigmatic Khomeini?the only man who can order the students to release the hostages...
...September, Bazargan told a television audience, "The government has been a knife with no blade." In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, he said: "Khomeini has never been a real politician. He's never had the training needed to face the administrative responsibilities that he now finds on his shoulders. In fact, he doesn't understand government, he doesn't know the techniques for administering a country." On Tuesday, realizing that Khomeini and his advisers were supporting the embassy siege, Bazargan at last resigned. He had been particularly stung when the students charged him with "treason" for having talked...
...might lose to Runner-Up Quentin Kopp, a conservative member of the board of supervisors. One reason Feinstein failed to win was the success of minor candidates: Punk-Rock Singer Jello Biafra astonished even himself by taking 3% of the vote. More significant, David Scott, an openly homosexual real estate agent who called Feinstein and Kopp "Tweedledum and Tweedledee," won 10%. How his followers vote will be decisive in the runoff, and both candidates will be courting them in the next few weeks. They must do so while also appealing to an apparent conservative mood among other voters. San Franciscans...
...simply too tired to make even minor decisions about their lives. Says Psychiatric Sociologist Margaret Barbeau of Glendale, Calif.: "You can walk away from an accident without physical injury, but the emotional injury may be even worse. You can't X-ray it, but the injuries are real...
...first signs of a housing decline are evident around the country. Average mortgage rates have jumped over two points since January of 1978 to 11.2%, and in California, Colorado, Indiana and other places they are 13% or 14%. Monthly payments are often no longer listed in the handy books real estate agents carry, and salesmen have been forced to use hand-held calculators to compute the numbing bill. Residential loans in Washington, D.C., have virtually halted...