Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near the industrial city of Isfahan, security forces were reported to have gone on a rampage against political dissidents. In the holy city of Qum, soldiers fired on a group of marchers. In the northeastern town of Mashhad, troops and police burst into a hospital and beat up the staff for having tended injured protesters...
...same time, the government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, who is also the army chief of staff, was using tough methods to break a nationwide oil strike. In Ahwaz, workers were given their choice of going back to their jobs or being fired; by week's end most of the country's 37,000 oil and refinery employees were back at work, and production rose to roughly half the normal output of 6 million...
Clad in blue jeans and toting a brown paper bag filled with his belongings, H.R. Haldeman said farewell to jail last week. Having served 18 months in federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., for his part in the Watergate coverup, Richard Nixon's former chief of staff was paroled in time for Christmas. "This is generally considered a special time of the year to rejoice, and it sure is for me," said Haldeman. Two days later, John Mitchell, the last of the Watergate gang still behind bars, was permitted a five-day Christmas furlough...
ENGAGED. Joseph P. Kennedy II, 26, eldest son of Ethel Kennedy and the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who until recently worked for an antipoverty agency in Washington, D.C.; and Sheila Brewster Rauch, 29, staff member of Boston's department of housing, development and construction; in Philadelphia...
...chip to help parents block out offensive programs, and a deal in which broadcasters agreed to provide three hours of educational children's television a week. In a televised forum on school violence on MSNBC with Tom Brokaw as cohost, after the Littleton tragedy last year, Gore startled his staff by blasting the network that ran the program for refusing to agree to the ratings system...