Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...striking feature of the anti-Shah demonstrations has been the presence of masses of Iranian women. In Tehran they marched by the thousands, encased from head to foot in black, shapeless chadors, while their men formed a protective chain on either side of the street. The women chanted pro-Khomeini slogans, but they also carried banners calling for the establishment of women's political, social and economic rights in any new Islamic regime...
Rajab Motamedi, 45, is a shopkeeper in Tehran's central bazaar, focus of some of the most violent anti-Shah protests. Like other small merchants, Motamedi has been hurt by Iran's cruel inflation (currently 50% annually) more than he has been helped by the prosperity that has expanded the country's middle class, and he believes that the Shah's drive to make Iran a modern industrial state has led to foreign domination. Jailed three times for anti-government activities, he has closed his shop and vows not to reopen until the Shah is overthrown...
...confidence vote came after Callaghan had lost two other votes in a debate on his anti-inflation policy?which galls the unions because it contains a lid on wages but not prices, and pains businessmen because it puts the burden on companies to enforce the wage standards. The first vote was on the issue of sanctions against companies that violate the 5% pay hike ceiling. Five left-wing Laborites deserted the government. As a result, Labor went down to a 285-279 defeat. That led to a vote on the government's entire pay policy, which Callaghan also lost...
Administration officials who wanted to switch to an anti-inflation policy-CEA Chairman Charles Schultze, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Council on Wage and Price Stability Director Barry Bosworth-got a powerful ally in G. William Miller, who took over as Chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board in March. Miller, a liberal businessman, was shocked by the runaway inflation he encountered and publicly urged the President to declare it the primary peril. More support came from, of all people, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. Says one Administration policymaker: "When Marshall starts arguing for wage-price guidelines, which would fall...
Still, the Administration was locked for months in a back-room battle between "the economists," who fought for a tough anti-inflation program, and "the politicians," led by Vice President Walter Mondale and Domestic Affairs Coordinator Stuart Eizenstat, who feared that such a program would alienate Democratic voters. Nor did the Administration's moneymen fully appreciate the vicious circle in which inflation weakens the dollar and a drop in the dollar spurs more inflation. Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, with Blumenthal's support, argued against doing anything to prop the dollar until its rout had degenerated into...