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Paul C. Warnke, who resigned October 1 as chief negotiator in the second round of strategic arms limitations talks (SALT II), told a capacity crowd at the Kennedy School Arco Forum last night, "We're living on borrowed time...
TEHRAN--Thousands of oil workers launched a new round of work slowdowns Monday, further endangering Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's position by diminishing Iran's all-important oil revenue, sources said today...
There were fears, however, that the relative calm might merely be a brief hiatus before a new round of violence aimed at driving the Shah from his throne. The next crucial test will come during the Islamic month of Muharram. The Shi'ite observance of this month culminates on Dec. 11, with the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husain, grandson of Muhammad. It is a time when all Shi'ites mourn for their dead, and emotions often reach a feverish pitch...
...films scheduled for American release soon look highly promising, though. One, Philip Noyce's Newsfront, is a humorous and ultimately touching history of a postwar newsreel company slipping into bankruptcy as television eats into its markets. Noyce dares to cast as his hero a round-faced, bespectacled middle-aged man (Bill Hunter), the outfit's taciturn chief cameraman. Slowly a portrait emerges of an ordinary man possessed by extraordinary integrity. In its quiet way the film becomes a glowing tribute to common decency and middle-class values ? Capra without the Capracorn...
Harvard's saber-swordsmen broke a 9-9 deadlock with three consecutive vitories to open the third round, then the epee and foil teams withstood a determined MIT comeback, as the Crimson humbled their competitors from the trade school down the river, 15-12, at the IAB last evening...