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...totally disgusted with TIME'S choice for Man of the Year [Jan. 7]. Certainly, the Ayatullah Khomeini has done much in the past year to change the course of history, but why should TIME give additional publicity to this fanatic? It's time that the media started concentrating on those members of society who struggle to bring about positive changes...
TIME has always defined the Man of the Year as the person who most affected the news "for better or for worse." It did so when it named Adolf Hitler in 1938, and it did so when it selected Ayatullah Khomeini last week. In all our coverage of the hostage crisis, and in the Man of the Year cover story itself, TIME made amply clear how it regarded Khomeini. But the Man of the Year has never been restricted to a person TIME wished to praise. Khomeini obviously dominated the news more than anyone else-"for worse." The magazine...
...appalled at your insensitivity and lack of judgment in the choice of Ayatullah Khomeini as Man of the Year...
...Ayatullah Khomeini is your Man of the Year? This amounts to treason while our men are still captive...
...expert: "The border between these two countries has never really been agreed upon, and the potential for increased conflict has dramatically heightened since the Soviet actions." U.S. officials hesitate to speculate about the effect on Iran, though there is some hope that the Soviets' intervention will lessen the Ayatullah Khomeini's strident anti-Americanism. Saudi Arabia and Iraq, meanwhile, both see the coup as an indirect threat to themselves...