Word: alle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Shah is not angry at all Americans. He writes: "In exile at Cuernavaca, I had the great pleasure of visits from Henry Kissinger and former President Nixon. On the subject of American and international politics, I always found Kissinger much better informed than anyone else. Always true to his...
"Our nation, in the process of its revolutionary development, cleansed itself of the filth of despotism and shed off an alien culture and mode of thought." So says the remarkable 175-article constitution that the Iranians approved last week by a claimed margin of more than 99%. Instead of any...
About a mile from Sabana Seca, the truck suddenly accelerated. It passed the bus, slowed, and forced the bigger vehicle to a halt beside a trash dump. Simultaneously, a white van that had been parked down the road came roaring toward the scene, and the blast of automatic weapons fire...
Finally, the commission makes a plea to all the developed countries of the world, warning that unless they "begin to act upon their rhetorical commitments to ending hunger, the principle that human life is sacred, which forms the very underpinnings of human society, will gradually but relentlessly erode."
Are these collisions inevitable? The mutual misunderstandings of the West and the Islamic world have a rich patina of history. Jews, Christians and Muslims, all "People of the Book," draw much of their faith from the same sources. Yet from the time of the Muslim conquests and the Crusades, West...