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...have assassinated some 200 officials and clerical leaders since June, Khomeini has responded with a campaign to round up and execute political enemies. The toll thus far: over 1,000 killed and 10,000 imprisoned. Observers in Tehran believe adverse reactions both within Iran and abroad to the spate of killing have driven Khomeini's forces to adopt the late Shah's clandestine methods...
...until Verba and his package of new rules arrive to lift the Faculty's meeting schedule out of the doldrums, it looks as if there may be another spate of cancellation notices. At least, that's what John R. Marquand, secretary to the Faculty, predicts. He contrasts this year with last, when--despite the three cancellations--the technology transfer issue got the Faculty off to a "'rip-roaring start" and heated debate about minority hiring and the Third World Foundation kept things interesting. Just one factor prevented the Faculty from meeting more often: a widespread belief that a body...
This tendency to commune by semaphore has probably not increased at all in centuries, but consciousness of it surely has. A spate of books like this season's Reading Faces and last decade's popular Body Language have explored the individual's tendency to broadcast things (unconsciously and otherwise) through all manner of physical movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, like other books of this ilk, is mainly...
Begin's justifications for the raid might have been more convincing if a persistent odor of electioneering had not clung to some of his other actions. The day after Begin's press conference, an ugly spate of name-calling erupted between the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Peres. Reason: Begin had given the Israeli Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee a copy of Peres' "personal and top-secret" letter that resulted in one of the raid's postponements. Peres had learned that the attack was scheduled for May 10, the date of the deciding round of French presidential elections...
...starts advocating shooting people, it's a natural reaction: the guy's either a nut or a federal agent." Hinckley was a voracious reader of newspapers, so it is logical that his affiliation with the Nazis began in early 1978: it was then that a spate of national news stories appeared about the National Socialists, mostly involving their planned marches through the heavily Jewish community of Skokie...