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Peter Fitzsimmons, last year's Heptagonal champ, gives the Crimson a solid steeplechaser; while cross-country stars Ed Sheehan, Mark Meyer and Guy McCroskey spearhead the distance runners

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Tracksters Sprint and Spring Into Action | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...northwest on the railroad line leading south to Hanoi, the other in the the east on the major rail link that parallels Highway 1, the jugular thoroughfare from Friendship Pass. Both thrusts appeared to aim directly at Viet Nam's capital. At the same time, an auxiliary Chinese force, spearhead units of an estimated three more divisions, probed toward the coast for a possible end run aimed at cutting off Highway 4 to Lang Son and later, perhaps, the main Vietnamese reinforcement and supply route of Highway 1, which years ago gained the dolorous nickname "street without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...time to end the chaos, the violence and murder, the loss of life of our countrymen. With your support, I sincerely hope to lead Iran to a genuine social democracy." One subject of that appeal was Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the exiled Shi'ite mullah who has become the spearhead of the anti-Shah revolution. At week's end. speaking from his headquarters in a suburb of Paris, Khomeini jeopardized Bakhtiar's chances by declaring that "obedience to this administration is obedience to Satan." Khomeini is adamantly against the new government because it still has links...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Unity Against the Shah | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...army went in, this time driving villagers into the frigid mountains. Neighboring Baluchi tribesmen, like the Pathans, have fled across the Pakistani border and are allied with separatist movements there. Some Western analysts have suggested that the Soviets may now want to take advantage of these movements to spearhead trouble in Pakistan and also in Iran, where some Baluchis have settled. For the moment, however, the Taraki regime's ineptitude in dealing with the tribesmen seems to have checked any such plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Red Flag over a Mountain Cauldron | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...martial law and press censorship. Tehran's normally thriving bazaar was still locked up tight. The merchants had shuttered their shops three months ago out of respect for Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims and the spearhead of anti-Shah dissent. At his headquarters outside Paris, Khomeini repeated his do-or-die demands that the Shah must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Military Is in Charge | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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