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Even in this grim area, rational distinctions must be made. Is there justification for calling the Shah a criminal and treating him as one? If so, the same would have to apply to scores of other rulers, rightist or leftist. Moreover, Iran, like many developing countries, has never known any really free institutions. And cruelty, by whatever regime, has always been a fact of life there and in many other countries the U.S. must live with. These considerations do not exonerate the Shah, but they must be kept in mind by the U.S. as it tries to cope with...
Here's Jimmy Carter with 19 warships in the Indian Ocean area, trying to figure out the Ayatullah Khomeini, neutralize Henry Kissinger, keep abreast of the Shah's gallstones, and suddenly this Idaho character wanders into Tehran and tries to take over the President...
...served. Sometime after 2 p.m., when radio contact with the aircraft was lost, the three-engine jet rammed into the snow covered side of Mount Erebus and exploded. Nine hours later, search aircraft from the nearby U.S. airbase at McMurdo Sound spotted the wreckage strewn over a quarter-mile area of the steep slope at 2,500 ft. Despite blizzard conditions, three New Zealand mountaineers managed to land at the scene by helicopter; they confirmed that there were no survivors at the site that rescue volunteers later described as "a hellhole...
...symphony. Calgary, once just a prairie cow town that was famous for its Calgary Redeye (beer and tomato juice), has become a cosmopolitan community of 550,000. Nearly 60% of the people are not of English-speaking origin, and despite the presence of some 60,000 Americans in the area, the largest ethnic group is German. This is Canada's fastest growing large city. In the past five years, 20 foreign banks have opened offices in Calgary, and last June the Bank of Montreal became the first major Canadian bank to move its chairman, Fred H. McNeil, to Alberta...
Faculty Council members contacted yesterday praised Rosovsky's new hard line on affirmative action. Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education, said yesterday he supports Rosovsky's approach of working with specific departments "because it goes straight to the sensitive area...