Word: concerned
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...called for the meeting of the U.N. Security Council, at which members adopted a resolution expressing concern over the detention of the American diplomats, and he asked several of Iran's Muslim neighbors, including Pakistan, for help. Fresh offers of assistance poured in. The Shah passed the word that he was willing to leave the U.S., leading Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ?who had denounced the seizure of the hostages as "a disgrace to Islam"?to offer to send his private jet to fly the ailing monarch to Cairo. Retired Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali announced he would be willing...
...officials added that Americans can compensate for the cut-off in Iranian oil by reducing their average automobile travel by three miles daily. "With proper conservation there should be no cause for concern; there should be no cause for panic," officials said...
...pressing problem is the mounting outrage over the junta's failure to determine the fate of some 300 dissidents who have "disappeared" during the past three years. Military officers have opposed the junta's plan to create a special commission to investigate the disappearances, evidently out of concern that this might implicate the armed forces. Unless the junta can produce a convincing explanation of what happened to the missing 300, and quickly, warns Christian Democratic Leader José Napoleón Duarte, whose victory in the presidential election seven years ago precipitated a military takeover, "they will...
...amounts to about $350,000 a year, and it can come in very lethal forms. Late last week a sealed container of armaments from the U.S. was seized in Dublin harbor. The shipment included M60 machine guns, Armalite rifles (snipers' weapons) and 40,000 rounds of ammunition. Another concern is moral backing of the I.R.A. by some U.S. politicians, whom Lynch accuses of hobbling the cause of peace. On the eve of his departure from Dublin, Lynch talked with TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo about Ireland's troubles and the American role in them...
Doctors have reacted to the book much as society matrons do to the best-dressed lists. Some are flattered to be included, while others believe that any such ratings are unseemly. Still others fear being swamped by would-be patients. But the greatest concern is expressed by those who believe they have been passed over...