Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forgotten. Beheshti endorsed the militants takeover of the U.S. embassy, and supports their refusal to turn the hostages over to the government. Once again, many Iranians believe, Beheshti is motivated less by ideology than by expediency and could well abandon the students if their cause seems lost. Observers note that Beheshti has never allowed the charter of his party to be published. Says one critic: "He does not want to commit himself to a rigid framework of action. He has to move with the tide. " And he adds: "We have not seen the end of Beheshti or his party...
...state of the economy has become the one-note message of Kennedy's troubled presidential campaign; it brings frustration, but he hopes it may bring salvation...
...anti-treaty forces see serious booby traps in the treaty's language. They note that it speaks of the moon and its resources as "the common heritage of mankind" and calls for "an equitable sharing" of them by all countries, whether or not they have participated in the lunar enterprise. Warns Houston Lawyer Art Dula, in the L-5 News: "Free enterprise institutions simply cannot make significant investments in space while they are under the threat of suit over treaty terms or ex post facto appropriation of their investments by a nebulous future international regime...
...Clare Wright, 30, who took her daughter Amy, then 3, to a refugee center set up in a hockey arena in nearby Hershey. Mrs. Wright carried along some clean clothes and a couple of blankets stuffed into a duffel bag, and left behind on the kitchen table a note to let her truckdriver husband know where to find her. She recalled: "We spent three days at that place and two weeks with relatives before we decided that it was safe to return. I'm still not sure that...
Reporters who have tested the tanks note an initial feeling of claustrophobia when the door closes behind them and they are isolated in an 8-ft.-long, 4-ft.-high space and 10 in. of water. "It smells," says one, "like day-old bath water." The 28% saline solution makes skin nicks and scratches smart and can sting the eyes. But, like most addicted tankheads, floaters experience a form of euphoria, though not necessarily as intense as the state reported by a 76-year-old salt in Minneapolis: "Now I can see the inside me/ While I float the outside...