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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extend its influence throughout the crisis area is beyond dispute.* What is less certain is how boldly it is pursuing this goal. Moscow's view of Iran under the Shah appears to have been highly ambiguous. Some experts believe Iran's Tudeh Communists played a direct role in the well-organized strikes of the oil workers and in the mass demonstrations against the Shah. Russian radio stations broadcast anti-American and anti-Shah propaganda. Yet the Soviets also became the Shah's third largest arms supplier and entered into several commercial ventures with him, including the purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Crescent of Crisis | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...derivative score, and among the actors, Brando is inexcusably wasted as Superman's father-saint, and Gene Hackman is embarrassing as the campy villain--is it possible that this once-gripping character actor has lost every drop of style he ever possessed, or was he just miscast in a role that cried out for a polished ham (a Brando, an Olivier, a George C. Scott)? Only Christopher Reeve radiates from within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '50s Nostalgia and '70s Paranoia | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

Elliott also played an important role in American government during the 1940s. At the beginning of World War II, he served as consultant to the U.S. defense program and after the war, Elliott directed the governmental staff which studied and reported on the economic reconstruction of Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Expert Elliott Dies After Long Illness | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

...Girls don't usually play a big role in debate," Seville-Jones said. "I think Harvard is unique among the currently successful college debating teams in that it has two girls on its teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationally Ranked Harvard Debators Sweep Competition | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

...some extent already has, created an "us" to do something with these ideas. This is the inspiration element. The conference is organized around eight committees: Academics, Student Life, Tuition, Financial Aid and Admissions, Extracurricular Activities, Women's Affairs, Minority Affairs, Student Government and Student-Faculty-Administration Relations, and The Role of the University in Social and Political Problems. The eight committees will discuss the role, nature and extent of student opinion and input into administration policy and decisions in each of these areas. But these conference committees have spurred the formation of parallel committees at Harvard. These committees...

Author: By Arthur Kyriazis and Mark Shlomchik, S | Title: The Need for Unity | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

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