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In the past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty. In 1968 Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was shot during a kidnaping attempt. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. was murdered in 1973, when members of the Palestinian Black September group...
Whatever their views of the U.S.-Iran dispute, diplomats everywhere agree that Khomeini's support of the assault is a dangerous precedent. "Under the tenets of diplomatic immunity," explains Robert Beers, executive director of the American Foreign Service Association, "anyone accredited to another country as a diplomat is entitled...
In fact, the rising stakes in the Iranian mess are almost certain to put alarming new stresses on both the U.S. economy and the world financial system. Asserts Economist Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources Inc.: "The direct impact of the U.S.'s actions is obviously small. But the...
U.S. exports of all kinds to Iran have fallen dramatically: from $3.7 billion in 1978 to under $1 billion this year. Iran gets about 25% of its food imports from the U.S., having bought 816,000 metric tons of American wheat in the past fiscal year. In September the Khomeini...
Now, almost all have shuttered their plants and offices, or turned them over to local workers to run, and brought their U.S. employees home. Johnson & Johnson's plant in Tehran, which made baby products, was expropriated in August. GM still claims a minority interest in a Tehran auto factory...