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Meanwhile, in Iran, reports quoted Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raji as saying the United States, in dealing with the hostage question, "has not understood the problem...
...Tehran on Tuesday, the Iranian government's acceptance of responsibility for the captives was underscored by Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i when he addressed a huge anti-American rally at the embassy. Tens of thousands of marchers shouted, "Death to American imperialism!" Raja'i delivered a fiery speech from a podium set up inside the embassy compound, proclaiming the hostage progress a victory for Iran. As viewed from Washington, it was encouraging that a government official was welcomed onto the militants' heavily guarded turf. Ever since the seizure of the embassy, U.S. officials monitoring...
Everything seemed set a week ago. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the Majlis, was sure he had enough support to put the deal to a vote. Back in Washington even the most skeptical officials were optimistic. But they, like Rafsanjani himself, neglected to reckon with the ingenuity of Iran's diehards ?left-leaning Muslims and mullahs who opposed any compromise whatsoever with "the Great Satan America." On Thursday, the day set for the Majlis debate, about 70 deputies stayed home or refused to take their seats, preventing a quorum and thus blocking a vote...
...Friday the signs turned hopeful again. The Iranian government announced it had drafted a "just method" for effecting the hostages' release. A U.S. Air Force ambulance plane was standing by in West Germany. Khomeini's heir apparent, the Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, called on the Majlis to work out a settlement. Said he: "This shirking of duty may not be condoned by the revolutionary people of Iran...
...think of Bartlett's as literary archaeology," says Beck, ";in which familiar and noteworthy quotations reveal . . . the nature of the age and the people who created them." If so, the 15th edition, with its chorus of sayings by Neil Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, R.D. Laing, Mick Jagger and the rest of the tribe, reminds one of Victor Hugo's platitude about an idea whose time has come, a quotation that Beck calmly assures us Hugo never said. Bartlett would have been proud...