Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stuff By Tom Wolfe. (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $12.95): Remember Project Mercury? Gus Grissom? John Glenn? Tom Wolfe's passionate chronicle of America's entry into the space age, The Right Stuff, brings back the memories--or introduces the subject--of the time when America braced for the Soviet threat from the sky and celebrated the heroes who fought that intergalactic cold war. More than that, Wolfe describes the code by which these men lived, the hell-raising, ass-kicking, flag-waving brotherhood of The Right Stuff. It's an exuberant and satisfying look at previously unexplored territory...
...this season, Gauthier remains undefeated in the 200-yd. freestyle, despite the constant threat of teammate Coglin. Moreover, Gauthier's 1:43.34 time against Columbia is just .34 seconds off his best individual time of last year...
...publicly, the best guess of Western intelligence experts was that the attackers were members of the 'Utaibah tribe, a migratory Sunni group that still wanders with its herds of goats and sheep between Mecca and Riyadh. The group apparently is small in number and represents no serious political threat to the House of Saud...
...most blatant use of television diplomacy occurred last Sunday when Khomeini, who refuses to give official U.S. emissaries the time of day, met separately with network correspondents. The interviews contained his first threat to try the hostages for espionage, and showed how the Iranians manage the news. Playing the ratings game, they reneged on a promised exclusive to the Public Broadcasting Service's Robert MacNeil, who left Iran in a huff after waiting in vain for two days...
Whether or not the roundhouse threat was genuine, the danger was that OPEC'S big depositors would grow wary about the stability of the world's banking system, perhaps even calling into question the value of money itself. A number of OPEC nations might even decide that it was wiser to keep oil in the ground instead of pumping up so much of it in exchange for mere paper. At the moment that Banisadr was posturing, U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was jetting to Saudi Arabia, to try to persuade Persian Gulf leaders not to cut their...