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...Armageddon. But all last week there were encouraging signs that the Shah's desperate attempt to keep the situation under control might succeed. Manning a bank of telephones at Tehran's well-guarded Niavaran Palace, he ordered army commanders to keep down the civilian death toll, something they have not always tried to do in the past. He announced the release of 122 political prisoners, including Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, who had been arrested a month earlier after visiting Khomeini in France...
...cancer. Police found huge caches of illegal arms, ranging from automatic rifles to crossbows, but hundreds of thousands of dollars had disappeared from the colony's safe. And only at week's end did officials declare that there were virtually no survivors in the forest, and that the death toll was not 409, as first announced, but about...
...independent, too powerful and too free-spending fourth arm of Government. "The agencies today," says a leading eco nomic policymaker in the Carter Administration, "are inde pendent baronies. They're like castles on the Rhine in the Middle Ages, when each castle stopped boats and collected a toll. Each agency collects its toll...
SEPTEMBER 7--Tropical Storm Norman dumped a blizzard on California's Sierra Nevadas. Its toll next day: four people dead, 17 missing. Too easily I could have been a fifth or an 18th. As it was, I watched two people dying...
...Verbruggen is proved right, that will make the game unusual, if not here, at least in the U.S. in general. Injuries-the annual toll of broken bones, torn ligaments, concussion and, occasionally, paralysis or death-are football's current shame. This fall, a million high school boys will be injured playing football. Most will suffer minor muscle pulls; others will walk the rest of their lives on aching knees. A few will die. While Pleasant Valley and Palmerton are playing in Pennsylvania, a 16-year-old boy in Oklahoma dies of head injuries en route to the hospital during...