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...predict the total costs. The fact that U.S. taxpayers were bearing the cost upset at least two Congressmen, Illinois Republican Philip Crane and Rhode Island Democrat Edward Beard. They publicly protested the use of federal funds (unofficial estimates of the cost have run as high as $8 million) to transport and process the decayed remains. Said Crane: "Although the entire situation is deplorable, the responsibility to bring the loved ones back to the United States rests with the families, not the Federal Government." Crane demanded to know who in the State Department had authorized the operation (it was the decision...
Striking workers paralyzed key industries: power, communications, transport and, the heart of the nation's wealth, oil production. At the same time, the ravaging mobs concentrated their destructive efforts on the banks, which Islamic extremists see as symbols of Western decadence and leftists view as outposts of capitalistic exploitation. On Nov. 5 alone, 400 banks were damaged or destroyed by rioting. In 1978, 1,400 of the nation's 7,000 banks have been attacked...
Yielding to the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the travel business, the 108-member International Air Transport Association (IATA) abandoned its 33-year-old role as the industry's fare fixing cartel. It also gave up its authority to regulate in-flight meals, drinks and enter tainment, and will henceforth confine itself to such noncompetitive matters as safety standards, security and ticket exchange arrangements...
...years to delay obeying a federal court's orders to desegregate city schools, which are roughly 60% black, the school board last week voted to sell some 28 vacant school buildings and 20 parcels of land to raise $2.5 million to buy 80 buses-enough to transport 8,500 of the city's junior high school students. To add to the school board's problems, its 27-year-old president, John E. Gallagher Jr., was convicted in municipal court last week of disturbing the peace. While riding in a car on a highway southwest of the city...
...devout Muslims headed for Mecca on the annual hajj (pilgrimage). A plea by religious leaders failed to get the workers back on the job to enable the pilgrims "to perform their religious duties toward Allah." The Shah himself stepped in and ordered the Imperial Air Force to transport the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Parents were growing impatient with the school closings, even if their offspring were not. Many schoolchildren took to the streets to join demonstrators and carry placards. It was, allowed eight-year-old Ali Safavi, more fun than "attending boring classes...