Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari were battling Khomeini's followers and Revolutionary Guards in the streets of Tabriz. Last week's outburst, the latest clash in a simmering Azerbaijani rebellion against the central government, left at least six dead and 100 wounded before Tabriz was brought under control by local police, army troops and Revolutionary Guards...
...hostages. Meeting with 80 Congressmen at the White House last week, President Carter painted a bleak picture of prospects for their speedy release. The main problem, he said, was that "there's nobody there with whom we can get in touch." He questioned Khomeini's ability to control the "international terrorists or the kidnapers who are holding our hostages." Echoing that view, one senior State Department official told reporters that "these terrorists are swimming in a sea of support from the Iranian government and people." The goal of the sanctions strategy, he explained, was "to separate them from...
...disclosed that the Egyptian and U.S. air forces had conducted joint exercises in recent weeks, to prepare for a contingency that might require the Americans to use Egypt's facilities. Among the U.S. aircraft deployed for the exercises were two E-3A Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System), which carry highly sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment...
...find 37 protesting priests and seminarians hanging Kung in effigy and burning his books: the pantomime was intended to satirize the church's decision. Otherwise, the Kung case has so far produced joint protests from scholars but little of the general uproar that attended, say, Pope Paul's birth control encyclical. In West Germany, Kung enjoys wide, but not overwhelming, backing among younger priests and the laity. In Rome, he is viewed more as a popularizer than a serious theologian...
...missio canonica (canonical mission to teach) from the local bishop. In Kung's case, this is Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Austria is the only other nation where a concordat gives bishops so much power over theologians at secular campuses. Elsewhere, except for schools under direct church control, the Vatican has only the power to inform Catholics that a professor's views are not sanctioned...