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...these assets, of course, are immovable and now in the hands of the Khomeini government (as are the famous crown jewels). But the Shah could easily have transferred cash income from them to banks abroad before his downfall, though stories of such transfers have so far proved unverifiable. Information on the Shah's holdings outside Iran ranges from sketchy to nonexistent. The New York lawsuit lists only four in the U.S. The most prominent is a 36-story Manhattan skyscraper owned by an American branch of the Pahlavi Foundation...
Lambert, backed by labor and blacks, has updated Huey Long. As chairman of the Louisiana public service commission, the same office that propelled Long into the governorship, Lambert has regularly opposed hikes in utility rates, even though many of his decisions were overturned by the courts...
...year history, NATO is expected to approve a U.S. proposal to deploy 572 new intermediate nuclear weapons in Europe. Of these, 108 would be Pershing II mobile missiles; with a range of about 1,000 miles, the missiles could hit targets in the western part of the Soviet Union, though probably not Moscow. The rest of the new weapons would be subsonic but extraordinarily accurate ground-launched cruise missiles with a striking range of approximately 1,500 miles...
This distinction could be crucial, though it has nothing to do with the potential destructiveness of NATO's new weapons. The critical point is that if war came, the Soviets would not be attacked at first by the monumental weapons that are part of the American strategic arsenal. Moscow might be more likely to retaliate against Europe with its own theater nuclear weapons rather than against the U.S. with strategic weapons. While the destruction from a theater nuclear exchange would be tremendous, it would still fall far short of the nuclear holocaust that would almost inevitably consume East...
...aviation tragedy,* was the third DC-10 disaster this year. It thus raised initial apprehensions about another possible mechanical failure like the faulty engine mounting that caused the U.S.'s worst single air disaster in Chicago last May. However, there was no evidence that the aircraft was defective. Though the exact cause of the crash remained undetermined at week's end, suspicions centered on possible pilot error. Captain Jim Collins, 45, was a flyer of 21 years' experience with a reputation for being "the epitome of a non-risk taker," but it was his first flight...