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Despite its success in the Midwest and the Southwestern Oil Patch, Chiles' message does not seem to travel well. During a test of the radio spots in Manchester, N.H., residents said they were "irritated" by his Texas accent. Nonetheless, the tough, salty entrepreneur is preparing to expand his broadcast broadsides. On the horizon: a TV campaign now being tried out in Tucson, Oklahoma City and Florence, S.C. Chiles has toned down his language a bit for the medium, but there is no mistaking the wail of Mad Eddie...
Three or more gunmen, who claimed to be Iranian Arabs from the southwestern province of Khuzistan, had seized the Iranian embassy on the edge of Hyde Park and held hostage some 20 people, mostly Iranians. They threatened to blow up the five-story building and kill the Iranian nationals (but not the four British hostages who had been caught) unless the Tehran government would agree to their demands. These included the release of 91 Iranian Arab political prisoners currently held in Khuzistan and the granting of some measure of autonomy to their oil-rich home province, which the Arab separatists...
...some physicians believe that even if symptoms do show up, the test is so artificially structured that the results are suspect. Declares Internist Leonard Madison of Southwestern Medical School in Dallas: "Hypoglycemia is a normal response to the glucose tolerance test. Man was not built to take an overload of glucose like that. Look at it this way: if you run up a flight of stairs and find yourself short of breath, it does not mean you have heart disease." Madison, like others, believes that the GTT should be junked in favor of taking glucose measurements after normal meals...
...grassy hill near the southwestern town of Bulawayo lies the tomb of Cecil Rhodes, the English diamond millionaire who took the white man's burden to southern Africa and founded the colony that bore his name. Rhodes, even with his ambitious vision, could never have contemplated a black-ruled Rhodesia with a Shona tribesman at its head. Yet the two leaders had at least one thing in common: each had an almost mystical belief that his personal destiny was intertwined with that of this hauntingly beautiful country. As Robert Mugabe took on the burden of governing and rebuilding that...
Selig Harrison, a Southwest Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argues that the U.S. should encourage the Zia regime to try to placate these minority groups-for instance, by granting a measure of autonomy to the Baluchs of southwestern Pakistan. During a 1973-77 rebellion, Harrison recalls, the Pakistan air force used Iranian-supplied U.S. helicopters to raze Baluch villages indiscriminately, thereby unleashing "a legacy of hatred that has merely intensified separatist feelings." Recently, however, some Baluch leaders have told U.S. diplomats that they are worried about the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, and would settle for regional...