Word: opening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole afternoon reviewing the fine points of U.S. policy on Iran with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance and fielding practice questions?about 25 in all ? thrown at him by aides. Former Imagemaker Jerry Rafshoon rehearsed Carter on the brief speech that would open the news conference...
...blood be shed inside a mosque; by nightfall they knew that they were hostages. Blood had already been shed within the mosque; when several guards had tried to arrest Mohammed and his band, they had been killed. Outside the locked doors, Saudi authorities were baffled. The only way to open the doors was to blast them open with cannon. But to damage a holy place required a ruling by the 'Ulama, the kingdom's religious leaders...
...third day. The 'Ulama denounced the seizure of the Sacred Mosque as "a highly detestable and ignoble crime and an act of atheism in the House of God." Saudi troops blasted open the doors and charged the mosque, and the place became an inferno of fire and crossfire. No one knows how many died. Many Saudi soldiers were mowed down as they charged forward, chanting "To die in this battle is to enter paradise." Mohammed's men showed surprising skill in breaking up into small groups, setting up fields of fire, and counterattacking. Prince Sultan called for reinforcements...
...warranted." Oddly enough, the terms of that very same act prevented Civiletti from learning enough about the charges to come to such a judgment. He could not grant witnesses immunity, for instance, nor haul them before a grand jury to testify under oath. Hence, Civiletti reluctantly kept the case open. "But for the act," said a Department of Justice official, "this would never have gone be yond an Assistant U.S. Attorney...
...Star Trek--the Motion Picture" opens today at approximately 900 movie theaters around the country; Paramount and Pocket Books hope that "Star Trek"--the fad--will open at the same time...