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...Traitor!" screamed the Iranian press. "Stooge for capitalism!" The target of that wrath, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani, smoothly replied with just about the worst possible insult in the Islamic world. He implied that the eleven members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, who have announced a two-stage increase of 15% in the world price of oil, v. the 5% increase posted by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are playing into the hands of Israel. Said Yamani: "Israel has an interest in higher prices because they push the West to find alternative sources...
...impossible to imagine Wolfe as a road-show Colonel Blimp, a truculent dandy wowing the provinces. He would quickly have them gasping, and not in pleasure. For his audacity is irrepressible. It has brought much wrath down on his head from more conventional journalists, but this book serves as a reminder of how often Wolfe's refusal to be respectful toward any subject has produced both illumination and laughter...
School budget time is often a day of wrath for citizens angered by rising costs, entrenched bureaucracy and the ambiguities of contemporary education. In Oregon alone, three districts have closed down their schools this fall because the voters rejected the budget, and several others are on the brink of closing. The longest of these shutdowns started last Oct. 15 in Eagle Point (pop. 2,600). Five times since last April the district's school board has proposed budgets of nearly $5 million; five times the voters have rebuffed them. TIME Correspondent William Marmon visited the town and reported...
...raucous rant of wretched lady's wrath...
...gals in Bluefield, West Virginia can rest easy tonight. Fired on by the wrath of the small jade idol he occasionally worships, loveable wrestling scientist and general all around lady's man Bobo Brazil beat the scurrilous and deceitful Man Mountain Mike in the sport's first loser-loses-sex match...