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Scotland may get its Assembly anyway. Callaghan has the option of pulling a Parliamentary maneuver to try and scrap the 40 per cent stipulation and establish the Assembly on the basis of the 52 per cent of the turnout which supported the plan. The SNP has threatened to abandon Callaghan and call for a vote of no confidence in Parliament. Without the support of the SNP, Callaghan would almost certainly have to call new elections which, given the current state of the economy, could be disastrous...
Shah did not come from God," he argued, "but from the people, and the people have taken it back." He warned that the military faced "the revenge of God" if it did not abandon Bakhtiar's government...
...these characters are woven into a plot that courts coincidence and irony with Dickensian abandon...
When the guards stubbornly refused to abandon their occupation, Homayoun revoked the diplomatic status of Major General Rafii and Zahedi's spokesman Ali Tabatabai, who was accused of lying to cover up the minicoup. But at week's end, Zahedi returned from Morocco and stepped back into the fray. He asked Homayoun to reverse his decision; when he declined, Homayoun was summarily fired along with four other diplomats who supported...
...just, it is not human, it is not Chris tian." At Monterrey, he defended laborers' right to organize and protect their economic interests. In an obvious wetbacks who head for the U.S., he stated, "We cannot close our eyes to the plight of millions of men who abandon their homelands, and often their families, in search of work with no social security and miserable wages...