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...long a Bakhtiar government may last, but they saw the Premier-designate as a moderate who just might be able to win the support of the Shah's opponents on both left and right. The French-educated Bakhtiar is a disciple of the late Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, in whose Cabinet he served as deputy Labor Minister before Mossadegh was overthrown in a 1953 CIA-backed coup that restored the Shah to his throne. Bakhtiar has long been an outspoken opponent of the Shah. He spent two years in prison for his activities with the opposition National Front. Only...
...Muslim republic that has never quite worked, Pakistan is a federation of four provinces, each of which has a formidable sense of regional identity. The largest (133,000 sq. mi.) and most turbulent of these jostling fragments is actually part of a tribal nation without defined borders, whose people also inhabit the eastern fringe of Iran and the southern tier of Afghanistan. This nation was literally quartered by the British map makers who brushed in arbitrary political boundaries during their heyday of 19th century imperialism. Like so much of this part of the world in the late 20th century, this...
...paradigm is Stanford, which in 1977 completed a five-year campaign that raised $304 million-then a record for private institutions. Almost all of the larger schools seem to be planning or conducting the biggest fund drives in their history. Harvard College plans to launch a campaign this summer whose goal is likely to be at least $200 million and which will be coordinated by 100 paid staffers. The half-dozen most ambitious drives currently under way (see box) are seeking a combined total of $1.56 billion...
Because of world time differences, stories from abroad sometimes appear first in evening papers. But since P.M.s usually start their presses before noon, they often can print only updated versions of stories that first appeared in competing morning papers. Says Dallas Times Herald Managing Editor Will Jarrett, whose paper in September introduced a morning edition to do battle with the bigger morning News (circ. 283,000): "Before, everyone was beating us, no matter how hard the writers and editors tried." Now, he adds, "we can get out with the breaking news, then go back and do some interpretation...
Like union members, retired members of the military and retired civil servants also benefit from escalator clauses. So do Social Security recipients, whose benefits have risen more than threefold since 1967 and who are exempt from having to pay income taxes on their monthly checks...