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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College of Theology, and two of Mofatteh's bodyguards. Although an anonymous caller to the state news agency claimed that the killings were committed by a previously unknown terrorist group called P.M., Khomeini and his followers characteristically blamed the assassinations on the U.S. Said the victim's son, Sadegh Mofatteh, 21, a college student: "No matter who pulled the trigger, it was the CIA that engineered the conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Cruel Stalemate Drags On | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Georgians' attachment to their native son is not only local pride, but also local resentment at their domination by the Russians who rule the country from Moscow. Less understandable is the nostalgia for the Stalin era that is expressed by a minority of Russians. Some complain that the price of vodka has risen astronomically since Stalin. Others mistake the relaxation of terror that followed Stalin's death for moral laxity. The thriving black market, the dissident movement, modern art exhibitions, rock 'n' roll and nudes in Soviet movies have all caused Soviet conservatives to observe wistfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Stalin's 100th | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

British imperial rule was temporarily brought back to Africa last week by a tall, well-fleshed Englishman named Christopher Soames. A police band played God Save the Queen as the 59-year-old diplomat, a son-in-law of Winston Churchill, stepped briskly from his Royal Air Force VC10 onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport. Lord Soames thus be came the first British Governor of Rhodesia since the colony's rebellious white minority illegally declared independence 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: Return of the Union Jack | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...Willebrands will be back in Rome with his bishops in January for an unprecedented meeting with the Pope aimed at bringing order out of the current doctrinal chaos in the Dutch church. A new poll in The Netherlands shows that only 47% of Catholics there think Christ is the Son of God, compared with 70% in 1966; fewer still be lieve in a personal God or life after death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not Quite a Heresy Trial | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Alfred Cardinal Bengsch, 58, Bishop of Berlin-both East and West-and leader of East Germany's 1.2 million Roman Catholics; of a hemorrhage during treatment for cancer; in East Berlin. The son of a Berlin postal official, Bengsch was named bishop of the divided city and its environs in August 1961, three days after the erection of the Berlin Wall. A conservative theologian who steered clear of politics, he was given special permission by East German authorities to cross the Wall three days a month to minister to his West Berlin flock; later he was allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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