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...officials said 1700 of the nearly 7000 American citizens currently in Iran are prepared to pull out as soon as the Tehran airport, currently shut by the new regime of the Anatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, reopens. The airport may reopen Saturday after observances of Islamic holidays...
...bipedal as his brain grew is certainly false: Lucy was small-brained, but could stand erect. Second, because Lucy is basically so primitive, man may have split from his ape ancestors much later than 15 million years ago, as is commonly supposed. Says Johanson: "Afarensis suggests that anthropologists might reopen the case of a divergence which occurred between 8 and 10 million years...
...adventurous. Conservatives are already planning to ambush him on China when he asks for legislation to establish a budget for an embassy in Peking. They also will challenge his request for measures to alter the cultural and economic ties between the U.S. and Taiwan. In addition, Carter will reopen in part the Panama Canal debate when he requests legislation to carry out the terms of the treaties signed last year to turn control of the canal over to Panama by the year 2000. On both China and Panama, however, the Administration is confident of eventual victory...
...been helped by the prosperity that has expanded the country's middle class, and he believes that the Shah's drive to make Iran a modern industrial state has led to foreign domination. Jailed three times for anti-government activities, he has closed his shop and vows not to reopen until the Shah is overthrown...
...Werner Erhard that Esquire had found too hot to handle, demolished liberal myths about the Black Panthers, grabbed the first interviews with Abbie Hoffman on the lam and Bill and Emily Harris in jail, found environmental horrors lurking in microwave ovens, drinking water and aerosol cans, and helped reopen the case of Peter Reilly, the young Connecticut man unjustly convicted of killing his mother. The magazine's last-page "Final Tribute" column was the last, often eloquent word on such endangered species as the country general store, George Wallace and, in the current issue, the Ford Pinto...