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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muslims of Soviet Central Asia just across the border. On the other hand, the National Security Council last week pondered the possibility that anarchy in Iran could lead to a radical leftist takeover. No doubt the same possibility has occurred to Iran watchers in Moscow. That helps explain the ambiguity of Soviet behavior so far: provocative Farsi-language broadcasts from a Soviet radio station in Baku, combined with begrudging diplomatic support for the U.S. at the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Symbolism of the Siege | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Coronary spasm may explain the infrequent incidents of chest pain and heart attack in premenopausal women, who rarely develop atherosclerosis. The spasm may cause blood to flow more slowly, thus allowing blood platelets to clump, clot and seal off the pathway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Big Squeeze | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...strange smell. One of the chemicals that she used for her photography. Potassium cyanide. From the bottle lying there. Henry picked up the body, still warm, soft, heavy, and dragged it over to the sofa. Clover did not open her eyes. Did not answer him. Did not explain. Did not move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Gothic | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Hyland began handing out a different story. Kissinger now claimed he "did not open anyone's mail," but had received a copy of the flyer from "a number of participants" who showed him their letters. Kissinger says now he "does not recollect" calling the FBI. How then does he explain the official evidence, which is stamped "Security Information" and printed on United States Government stationery? Hyland reports that Kissinger contends the FBI would never release such a memo about him to anyone else because the Freedom of Information Act only permits the release of records on a specific person...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Kissinger, Harvard And the FBI | 11/16/1979 | See Source »

...psychiatrist's mind about Barham. In both sessions, her entity-guide "Pico" tried to solicit sex. Edwards says she ripped masking tape from a light switch and flipped on the lights, revealing Jay Barham wearing only a turban. "I never heard such screaming," says Edwards, who hastens to explain that it was not the sight of Barham that caused the alarm; the other participants believed that light destroyed an entity. Edwards was sure the demonstration would convince Kübler-Ross that Barham was a fraud. No such luck. "This man has more gifts than you have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Conversion of K | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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