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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guards. So the battle began, and within a short time Khomeini's officials had been driven from Tabriz. Khomeini has been uncertain how to fight back. At first, he tried words. In a rhetorical broadside, he castigated the rebels as "mere heathens, foreign-led agents whose dossiers are in our hands." He tried to rally the Azerbaijanis to his anti-American crusade. Said he: "Now that we are at war with the great Satan, any gesture or utterance aimed at weakening the government is apostasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Another Ayatullah Is Angry | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...special benefit dance at the town hall that was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Women's Auxiliary. They held a raffle, and auctioned off such homey items as stuffed pillows and Lazy Susans. All in all, the citizens raised $5,000 for Fran York, whose Star Ranch was gutted by a blaze back in November. Although Fran needs about $100,000 to get her business going again, $5,000 was a good night's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: All in a Good Night's Work | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...years, Irving and Annette Herman drove around Bridgeport, Conn., in cars whose license plates bore the first two letters of each of their names: IRAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Unsafe at Any Speed | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...felt that the odds for a comprehensive agreement were still better than even as informal contacts continued. Nkomo remained anxious for a settlement, they believed, though Mugabe was holding fast to a hard line. The question was whether he would give in to the pressure of neighboring African states, whose leaders are reportedly urging their Patriotic Front wards to conclude a truce. One hopeful sign: both Nkomo and Mugabe said they would stay on in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: Return of the Union Jack | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...another: a heavy line, now dogmatic, now uncertain, grinding across the paper, paying its digestive homages to Picasso, Gonzalez, constructivism generally and, rather surprisingly, to the bonelike figures of Moore and Arp. One of the ear lier drawings is a hole-in-the-head figure clearly derived from Moore, whose own interest in totems would presently be assimilated, to new effect, into Smith's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dream Sculptures in Ink and Paper | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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