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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While their comrades were seizing the chancellery, another group of students was breaking into the heavily secured consulate section, which had just been rebuilt (at a cost of $500,000) to speed up the issuance of visas for thousands of Iranians seeking to go to the U.S. One irony of the situation was that in recent weeks the crowds of Iranians around the embassy had been there to try and get visas to the U.S. Noted the English-language Tehran Times: "Despite the public denunciations, the U.S. embassy has often presented the spectacle of being mobbed one day by visa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackmailing the U.S. | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...council did. It will be less attentive to downtown business interests, may be less anxious to annex white suburban areas until services in the center city improve, and will surely be more solicitous of poor areas. Vows Ernest McGowen, a black mailman who will represent Houston's northeast section: "People in office haven't heard from this side of town, but they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Strong Currents of Change | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...Geological Survey scientists mapped only a small section of this fault zone-in Arkansas' Mississippi and Craighead counties-but they suspect it continues north for some 100 km (62 miles), through Arkansas and northwestern Tennessee. There the fault system veers off past New Madrid and probably continues into southern Illinois. In all, the scientists count about half a dozen associated faults, although their data are still sketchy. Says St. Louis University Geophysicist Sean-Thomas Morrissey: "You can't go out and stick your finger in the fault like in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Middle America's Fault | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...band shouted, "Hey, Craig--as an outsider, what do you think of the human race?" The fans exploded. And you knew the spirit of Watson's Section 18 lived on, even with all the heat and lights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bright, New Hockey Home | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...Busing children from one poor school to another poor school doesn't do anybody any good," Wade said. "Neither does taking a black family from one raggedy home in one section and putting them in a raggedy home in another section of the city," he added...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Local Panelists Disagree on Solutions To Abolish Racial Violence in Boston | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

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