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...first glance, Austin (Tommy Lee Jones) and Lee (Peter Boyle) seem like the remotest of kin. The atmosphere is one of Pinteresque comic menace, but actually the tension of reunion...
...realm. The party grounds were sealed with barbed wire; troops armed with submachine guns stood guard. The University of Tehran was closed to forestall embarrassing signs of protest. By 1978, resentment against the imperial arrogance of Persepolis had ignited a revolution that spread from mosques to merchants to the remotest villages of the country. When Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died in a Cairo hospital last week at the age of 60 of lymphatic cancer complicated by a hemorrhage of the pancreas, it was after 18 months of exile...
...ever been in Iran during the past regime, particularly in its later years, he would have seen how even in the remotest villages, the single tiny shop carried all the basic medicines--at unbelievably low prices, the government paid two-thirds of the price. He would have seen the government hospitals and clinics found in every small town. He would have seen that in late 1978 the price of bread, tea, sugar, and other basic necessities was the same as 15 years before, because the government picked up three-fourths...
They did. On the final selection of the first round, the Oakland A's, who had never spoken to, or shown even the remotest interest in Mike Stenhouse, made him the 26th college player selected in the nation...
...another uncertainty is the potential success or failure of the minor parties. This year a record 2,571 candidates are running for 635 seats in the House of Commons. Many of the campaigners represent 100 or so fringe organizations of the right or left that have not the remotest chance of winning. Among them: the Fancy Dress Party, the Dog Lovers' Party,* the Ecology Party and Actress Vanessa Redgrave's Workers' Revolutionary Party. Among the more serious minor parties, the Scottish Nationalists figure to lose nearly all of their eleven parliamentary seats, thanks to the failure...