Word: remnant
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Discontent in Iran has periodically erupted among students, fomented by what the regime says are "Islamic Marxists," who want to overthrow the Shah. In addition, his rule is challenged by a group called the Unity of National Front Forces, a revived remnant of the old National Front of the late leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who was ousted after a showdown with the Shah in 1953. But the main thrust of the present opposition comes from the Shi'ite mullahs, religious leaders who are, in a sense, priests and theologians of Islam. Led by bearded, bespectacled Ayatullah Shariet-madari...
...banking heavily on the World Cup as a means of burnishing the country's international image. Argentina has invested some $700 million in building the soccer stadiums, refurbishing airports and repairing local highways. Meanwhile, the Argentine military is winning its war of extermination with terrorists, despite the stubborn remnant of Montoneros. To counter its police-state image, the government has reduced its intended security allotment of 5,000 police and soldiers for Buenos Aires...
...only remnant of a video class at Harvard was Soc Sci 168 "Mass Telecommunications," taught by Saudek. The porta-paks and video equipment were in disrepair and Robert Kuglers's position as video supervisor was eliminated, leaving him to concentrate his efforts on 16 mm film...
...fine and five years in prison. And anyone convicted of converting to another faith for nonspiritual benefit may spend three years behind bars. Explaining his country's first antimissionary law, Orthodox Knesset Member Meir Abramowicz, the bill's sponsor, says: "We are the remnant of millions of Jews from the past. We merely want to protect our children." But Israel's 80,000 Christians-not to mention many of Abramowicz's own countrymen who are concerned about civil rights, American good will and religious harmony-think the new bill is repressive, badly written, ill-timed...
...mining disaster in recent times. Ahead is the murder of Yablonski by Tony Boyle's thugs. These are the last-gasp days of the New Left--SDS has splintered, and when Hobie gets to Boston he falls in with one of the wayward factions left by the rupture, a remnant that went neither with the Weathermen or Progressive Labor which Sayles calls "Third Way." Hobie's adventures with these self-styled urban guerillas as take place in the shadow of the Harvard strike and the B.U. take-over that started out as a demonstration against G.E. recruiters...