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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The majority of Iranian students were, and are, bitter opponents of the Shah. But some have grown accustomed to life in the U.S., and many have no wish to return to the uncertain prospects of Khomeini's Iran. Temporarily, at least, the U.S. has become an uncomfortable haven for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: We're Going to Kick Your Butts | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Some students seem to be looking for trouble-and finding it. In the Beverly Hills incident, the Iranians defiantly carried out a protest march, even though the police had received 25 threats from residents to shoot the protesters as soon as they crossed the city line. On the University of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: We're Going to Kick Your Butts | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Crime, poverty, racial tension. The symptoms are so depressingly similar from one urban center to another that they are often lumped together in one catchall phrase: "the problem of the cities." Politically, however, the cities make up a complex and ever shifting mosaic, as local elections across the nation demonstrated...

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

In his first bid for elective office, Brown, 45, breached Kentucky custom by hugging and kissing his wife, the irrepressible Phyllis George, 30, in public at every opportunity. She was Miss America in 1971 and went on to become a TV celebrity. In the campaign, she put her media training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Let's See Some Teeth | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

At last, the challenge was formally issued. In Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, where Samuel Adams once preached revolt against the ruling British, Ted Kennedy last week finally proclaimed his insurgency. It was, inevitably, a family affair. When Rose Kennedy arrived to watch the third of her sons'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy Makes It Official | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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