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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth day. Documents found on the bodies of several of the invaders established that they were South Yemenis; some of their wallets contained pictures of Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini. Mohammed's men were now fighting hit-and-run skirmishes. Many descended into the cavernous maze of the basement, which is honeycombed with the foundations of previous mosques built on the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Struggle for the Sacred Mosque | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Similar stories of crime are coming from other cities. In Tianjin (Tientsin), the local press last month reported on "criminal elements who provoke fights, rob pedestrians and humiliate and insult women in broad daylight." In Peking, there have been reports of small bands of young men who lie in wait in dark alleys to rob passersby. In Hangzhou (Hangchow) last month, two brothers were sentenced to death-and one of them immediately executed-for having raped 106 women over the past five years. In the southern district of Shaoguan (Shao-kuan), nine teen-agers were seized after assaulting a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Pickpockets, Muggers, Thieves | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...fallen off to 14% in this year's first nine months, and the trigger price was reduced 1% to $347.55 a ton for the third quarter. But with the yen weakening almost 23% against the dollar this year, the Japanese are becoming even more competitive. So American steel men are again unhappy and want the trigger price to be raised considerably. Steel men believe Government pricing decisions -from the Kennedy jawboning and the Nixon controls to the Carter guidelines -have been responsible for keeping its profitability low and thus denying it needed investment capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trying to Toughen Up Steel | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Ankara stirred virulent press attacks on the papacy. The Pope mildly urged Turkey's oppressed Christian minority to esteem Islam for its shared moral and religious values. Dimitrios, in a pointed reference to events in Iran, deplored the "tragedy" of rising "religious fanaticism" and the "self-destruction of men and their faith, always in the name of God." In Istanbul, John Paul made brief tourist stops at Topkapi Palace and the ancient basilica of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), which became a mosque after the Turks conquered the city in 1453, and is now a museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Tomorrow of God | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...happens to every man sooner or later: eager to have sex, he finds himself impotent, unable to achieve or sustain an erection. For most men such disappointments are fleeting episodes in otherwise successful sex lives. But for perhaps as many as 10 million American males impotence is a devastating chronic condition. When the cause is psychological, which may be true in about half of all cases, counseling and sex therapy can often help. But for most impotence resulting from physical problems, only one remedy is available: the penile implant. Though the public is generally unaware of these mechanical devices, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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