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...seen." Last week's clues pointed toward wine. Not only did Carter say, in his first press conference in eleven weeks, that there were "positive signs" in the attempts to free the hostages, but near week's end Iran's newly elected President, Abolhassan Banisadr, also issued the most encouraging statement to come from a responsible Iranian official since the militants seized the Americans last Nov. 4. Said he, in an Italian television network interview: "There is a proposal on President Carter's desk now which, if he accepts, can lead to the release...
...White House meeting with magazine editors: "We look forward to a time in the future to have normal relationships with Iran." One possible move: the Treasury Department could rescind its freeze on the estimated $6 billion of Iranian assets in the U.S. or on deposit with American banks. Banisadr would like the U.S. to resume shipments of spare parts for Iran's sizable arsenal of U.S.-built sophisticated weaponry...
...main problem in resolving the U.S.-Iran crisis has been the absence in Tehran of any official able to negotiate with authority. For a while this seemed to be still the case last week. Banisadr told Le Monde, the Paris daily, that the release of the American hostages was no longer linked to the return of the deposed Shah, and that "it would suffice that the U.S. admits its responsibilities and resolves never again to interfere in our affairs." This was soon contradicted by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who was in Athens on an official visit. There he declared that...
...first the Carter Administration indicated that it was in no mood for haggling. After Banisadr's interview with the Paris daily, State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III said flatly that the U.S. has no intention of "declaring its guilt, either specified or unspecified...
...some soul searching from his hospital bed. Last week, mindful of reports that Soviet troop strength was increasing along the border with Iran, he denounced the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for the first time and pledged support to the Afghan insurgents. More important, he has bestowed his blessing on Banisadr in a manner that could not be mistaken. In this, he reflected the changing political mood of the country itself. Most Iranians seem ready to put the excesses of the revolution behind them. To the extent that Banisadr represents this changing mood, Khomeini is not likely to oppose...