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...port of Kharg Island, one eyewitness told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis that Iranian workers sullenly half loaded a foreign tanker and then told its crew: "We don't need you. Now get your ass out of here." Virtually no foreigners remained at the refineries, and even the army withdrew its guards from administration buildings and installations, which were left in the hands of the strikers...
...demonstrations were much more violent in the industrial city of Isfahan, 210 miles south of the capital, where troops first withdrew from the downtown area and then battled for hours to restore order. For two days thereafter, the army staged demonstrations in support of the Shah in several other cities. In a particularly ugly incident, three on-duty soldiers opened fire with automatic weapons in the mess hall of an army camp just two miles from the Shah's Niavaran Palace in north Tehran; six noncommissioned officers were killed and ten wounded in the shooting...
...keep a low profile, Taraki's government has boldly waved the country's new red flag, which has a yellow star (symbolizing the Khalq Party) surrounded by some wheat instead of a hammer and sickle. After it unfurled this banner in October, the regime promptly 1) withdrew recognition from South Korea in favor of the Communist North, 2) described its accession to power as a "continuation" of the Russian Revolution, and 3) gratuitously parroted Brezhnev's charge of "imperialist" interference by the U.S. in Iran. But except for the ever suspicious Chinese, diplomats in Kabul have found...
Soon after Stare heard about Cohen's request for an audit, the department chairman withdrew Cohen's name from nomination for re-appointment. Stare said the recommendation was withdrawn on academic grounds...
...much of Harvard's endowment would be lost and what would be left to invest in, if Harvard withdrew support from any of the 6,000 banks and companies doing business with South Africa...