Word: calming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later in the week, Correspondent Robert Geline arrived in Guyana. Lack of transportation to Jonestown kept him and other journalists in Georgetown. But on Thanksgiving Day many survivors from Jonestown took up lodgings at Geline's hotel and they were outwardly calm and willing to talk. Geline recalls, "I was deeply moved, fascinated and horrified by what I heard...
Outwardly, Ryan appeared calm and seemed to shrug off the attack. The visiting newsmen and relatives were alarmed. The colonists who wanted to flee were frightened. But the plans for departure proceeded. The party again headed down the rutty road to Port Kaituma, where the two aircraft awaited them...
There were fears, however, that the relative calm might merely be a brief hiatus before a new round of violence aimed at driving the Shah from his throne. The next crucial test will come during the Islamic month of Muharram. The Shi'ite observance of this month culminates on Dec. 11, with the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husain, grandson of Muhammad. It is a time when all Shi'ites mourn for their dead, and emotions often reach a feverish pitch...
Meanwhile, the Shah continued his efforts to form a coalition government that would take I over from the military once calm was restored. There " were hints of a compromise that would enable the Shah eventually to relinquish many of his powers, but the government was not yet prepared to publicize the plan...
...restoration of calm in Tehran gave rise to some optimism, especially in Washington, that the Shah had weathered the most tempestuous period of his 37-year reign. "The most immediate danger has passed," observed an Administration policymaker. "What didn't happen may be most important: a call for a general strike was unsuccessful and new industrial protests did not take place." But the problem of keeping people on their jobs is far from resolved. As a Western diplomat observed last week, "What do you do, post a soldier with a bayonet over every worker...