Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter where he went, the Shah would still be at the center of the storm between the U.S. and Iran over the hostages in the captured U.S. embassy. That storm grew more menacing at week's end. First, Iranian militants produced what they declared was "proof of spying by embassy personnel. Then, after learning of the Shah's flight to Texas, the students announced that the hostages would be put on trial "immediately" if he left...
...then adjourned until Saturday, so that Iranian representatives could fly to New York to present their country's position. But then Khomeini balked. He condemned the session as having been "dictated in advance by the U.S.," and Iran's Revolutionary Council voted to boycott the debate. The U.N. went ahead anyway, and in an extraordinary Saturday night session, speaker after speaker?including those from the Soviet Union and a number of African nations?denounced Iran for holding the Americans. When the debate ends this week, the Council is expected to approve a resolution calling formally for the release...
...said he went to a lecture Chomsky was sponsoring for the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran. They had an Iranian poet to read his poetry--Reza Berahini... and a mob of Iranian students delayed the lecture for hours. There was a bomb threat. The Americans were scared. The Iranians said Berahini was a CIA agent. Yet he was an anti-Shah poet--he spent years in jail. So finally, Chomsky let one of the students speak at the podium, and the student waxes hot-faced and apologizes to the crowd for the disturbance. He says...
...least one Harvard senior has reported such an experience in his bout with the ETS. The conversation went like this...
Tenants complained yesterday that workmen worked on lighting and wiring in Apartment 1 in the 16-unit building. When the ordinance, which faces a court test later this winter, went into effect, a tenant lived in the room, another tenant, Bernice Rogowitz, said yesterday...