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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within hours, however, this was denied by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who, since taking office four weeks ago, has apparently been searching for a way out of the impasse. He promised that "no trial will go on," though the government still intended to convene an "international grand jury" to investigate the "Shah's crimes and American foreign policy here." In the meantime, he said, release of some hostages before Christmas was "possible but not certain." Added Ghotbzadeh: "We will try to do our best to defuse the crisis. I certainly don't want to have this crisis forever...
...Ghotbzadeh. In Communique 75, they accused him of "talking too much." Said the militants: "The Iranian nation should be ashamed to speak more than necessary to an enemy, particularly a filthy one like America." To hasten his fall from grace, the state-run radio, which until three weeks ago was directed by Ghotbzadeh, praised the students' criticism of him and declared: "There is no room for diplomatic games in our revolution." It was clear warning that Ghotbzadeh may face the same fate as his predecessor, Abolhassan Banisadr, who was fired as Foreign Minister after 18 days of service because...
...medium as the message, and the '70s perfected the package as the product. Both points converge in Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East, where, from millenniums before Marshall McLuhan and Ernest Dichter, the pitch has been that the substance is the illusion. And vice versa: not long ago, an Indian airline promoted a package tour with the slogan NIRVANA...
...Krishna Hare Rama." There are also Western notions on better transcendence through chemistry. Mehta notes that young foreigners frequently sell their passports to buy drugs; the documents are reported stolen and easily replaced at local embassies. She also reports that villagers who refused to take smallpox vaccinations 15 years ago are now "dropping uppers and downers with the best of them," and "Benares looks set on replacing Bangkok as Needle City, Asia...
...youths. Finally, in the late '90s, he met and, in effect, married his true love: the Davies family. Arthur Davies was a successful barrister, his wife Sylvia a woman of memorable vivacity. They had five sons, each as perfect in his way as David had been so long ago. Slowly, almost insidiously, the playwright enveloped them with his charm and money. All but one of the boys adored Barrie and his tales. He, in turn, created for them the character of Peter Pan. "I suppose," he said, "I always knew that I made Peter by rubbing the five...