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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vulgarisms. There are numerous varieties of Khomeini dart boards and targets for sharpshooters. One dart board features a caricature of the Ayatullah holding a lighted match to his posterior. In Bedford Park, Ill., Michael McCormack was inspired to make Khomeini dart boards by a diaper serviceman who lined his truck with pictures of the Ayatullah and threw soiled diapers on them. Says McCormack: "We have sold 200,000 to everyone from little old ladies to a kid who wants to peddle them in grammar school...
...Baja, a San Juan suburb. Bouncing in their seats, the passengers-13 men and five women-dozed or talked quietly as they traveled the familiar route from the Sabana Seca Communications Station to a radio transmitter site four miles away. Nobody paid any attention to a green pickup truck that was following close behind...
...STREETS OF BOSTON are lined with kids out for Friday night fun. They wear neat clothes. They are clean and white. They drink beer and shout "Kill the Ayatollah" at an Iranian student who is crossing the street in front of a pickup truck. The drivers smile and sneer at once...
...simple solution for dealing with the Iranians: "We ought to shoot the sons of bitches." Says Bob Brubaker, a wheat farmer in western Kansas: "I'm beginning to think that we should either seize their oilfields or destroy them if we can." Frank McVey, a New York truck driver, would not even wait to see what happens to the hostages. Says he: "We might as well write off the hostages; they're going to be killed no matter what we do. We should bomb the hell out of that country so it will be a long time before anyone else...
...economy back to prerevolutionary levels. Industry is estimated to be operating at only 40% of capacity. With workers' councils sitting in on managerial decisions, many managers are afraid to make decisions on anything but issuing paychecks. Chaos prevails at the docks and at highway customs posts along the main truck route from Europe. Inflation is running at 40%, unemployment at 25%. In Tehran the situation is further aggravated by the migration since the revolution of perhaps 1.5 million people to the city, bringing the population up to as many as 5 million...