Word: buts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The notion that Iranians hate America has been especially good for fostering ugly and irrational anti-Iranian feelings in Americans. But a leaflet distributed in America during the revolution dispels this myth. It urges Americans not connected to the Shah's regime to spread the "message that Iranians are opposed...
The students holding the embassy are acting in violation of international law, but U.S. intervention in Iran was hardly legal either. Before the takeover of the embassy, the Iranian government made numerous attempts to legally extradite the Shah through diplomatic channels. All attempts failed. The students' demands are addressed to...
The Shah must have a fair trial, perhaps not in Iran, but in an international court of justice that the Iranians agree to. He should be tried not so he can be punished and executed, but so that the crimes and atrocities committed during his reign can be exposed to...
Sissela Bok, lecturer on Medical Ethics, agreed that seeing her family together for Christmas would be an ideal present. But she added that she's just finished celebrating her birthday, "so Christmas seems very far away."
A greater public understanding of science would suit Eric J. Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy. He didn't mention it, but he might like tenure, too.