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...left the country last weekend for Panama. Early Saturday, the Shah with his family boarded an Air Force jet at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and flew to the Canal Zone, ending his 54-day stay in the U.S. Just where the Shah would live was uncertain. U.S. officials mentioned the lush resort island of Contadora off Panama's Pacific coast. But Luz Maria Quijano de Murray, Panamanian consul general in Philadelphia, said the Shah will be given asylum for three months on Coi-bita Island, also off the Pacific coast. The arrangement, she added, "could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...constitution that grants all power to Khomeini, but that was enough to inspire a threatening Khomeini mob to surround his house and kill one of his guards. So the battle began, and within a short time Khomeini's officials had been driven from Tabriz. Khomeini has been uncertain how to fight back. At first, he tried words. In a rhetorical broadside, he castigated the rebels as "mere heathens, foreign-led agents whose dossiers are in our hands." He tried to rally the Azerbaijanis to his anti-American crusade. Said he: "Now that we are at war with the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Another Ayatullah Is Angry | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...violent antiWestern, anti-American reaction of the mobs reflected the uncertain currents of emotional fervor that the Ayatullah has helped loose within the volatile world of Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Sacrilege in Mecca | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...that I could best serve the cause of antifascism by joining him in his work for the Russians." It seemed to him at the time, Blunt explained, that the Communist Party and the Soviet Union "constituted the only firm bulwark against fascism, since the Western democracies were taking an uncertain and compromising attitude toward Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Spy with a Clear Conscience | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...prognosis, like so often with young teams, is uncertain. Guard Bob Allen, the 6-ft. 4-in. senior captain, will direct the three-guard, two-forward offense. Notice the absence of a center...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers to Debut Tonight | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

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