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Lover? Partner? Bedmate? The answer is none of the above. The word for it is "erum," coined from good old American tongue-tiedness as mothers told their friends, "He's my daughter...
Part of the answer is that only in recent weeks has Washington taken seriously the possibility of the Shah's falling. It has long been a basic tenet of American policy that the Shah must be strong; the wishful thinking of policymakers contaminated the judgment of those who collected and analyzed intelligence. American officials tended to rely on Iranian intelligence, which in turn tended to tell His Imperial Majesty what he wanted to hear...
...answer, once again, is that the rigid imperatives of policy got in the way of bold, forward-looking thinking. "There was a fear around here of self-fulfilling prophecies," says one official privy to the discussions. "There was also a sense that the people upstairs didn't want to be told what to do 'if.' They wanted to be told 'if' wasn't going to happen, and they wanted us to concentrate on making sure it didn't happen." Or as another official puts it, "The support-the-Shah-to-the-hilt policy...
...they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. . ."). He then rhetorically posed an issue that bedevils everyone concerned with the 30-year-old Middle East struggle: "not whether, but when this vision [of peace] will become a reality." Begin did not give a definite answer. Instead, he acknowledged an intellectual debt to Giuseppe Garibaldi. The Italian revolutionary hero, said Begin, taught freedom fighters to "work for peace because there is no mission in life more sacred...
...Wednesday night, Rosovsky surfaced to answer student questions at a forum sponsored by the Student Assembly. And the author of the Core Curriculum held his own against some pretty heavy questioning...