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...evacuation of American government dependents was ordered after two Americans were beaten by a crowd of angry Iranians in Isfahan late Monday following a shooting in which an Iranian taxi driver was wounded...
...cars headed for the Turkish border, another for Iraq. But the majority of evacuees converged on Tehran's airport, despite railroad and domestic airline strikes. Some went to the airport at night to avoid being seen. Shirley and Bill Johnson, a Texas couple who had hired a taxi for the 260-mile journey from Isfahan to Tehran, were asked by their driver, who did not want to be seen transporting foreigners, to put on black chadors, the ankle-length veil worn by Iranian women. By week's end only some 20,000 Americans remained in Iran, down from...
...were beclouded by the country's dark mood. Negotiations, scheduled to take place at the Foreign Ministry, were shifted to Taipei's Grand Hotel when 20,000 protesters gathered in front of the ministry. Some demonstrators stomped on heaps of peanuts, yelling, "This is Carter!" One desperate taxi driver doused himself with gasoline and, shouting "Long live the Republic of China!" set himself afire in his car; he was rescued and sent to a hospital...
...sometimes make. So you want a naked lady to pop out of the cake? No problem. But New Orleans' John Abbott had to come up with two 100-ft. trees for a convention of chain-saw manufacturers to demonstrate their goods. Las Vegas decided to allow 26 aircraft to taxi down Paradise Road from McCarran Airport to the convention center for the Agricultural Aviation show...
...group weren't on that shift. A woman got off, with two small children and six large suitcases. It had cost her $300 to go fifteen minutes in the air but her fur showed that she could handle it. Smiling at the copter pilot, she dialed for a taxi and was off. She had offered the pilot double the normal fee to get her little group out of Cottonwood before ours...