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...assignments a journalist gets, each new one brings its own special dangers, as Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst discovered while reporting for this week's cover story. A veteran correspondent who joined TIME only last month, van Voorst, 46, has covered conflicts in the Dominican Republic, Jordan, Chile and Lebanon, plus the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. But he judges Iran to be his most dangerous territory...
...Admittedly, there are implications of "intervention" here, and in view of the United States' poor experience in countries where it has intervened, it is questionable whether such a policy should be pursued even in this case. But intervention has many facets and a Vietnam-type or Chile-type intervention is not being proposed here. Furthermore, the success of such a policy depends on how one chooses to define success: if success means avoiding possible setbacks in relations with the Khomeini government, then the policy will be a failure. But if aiding a community of approximately 80,000 people spells success...
...believe that the fall of the Shah is a turning point in the long history of the Iranian struggle for self-determination, and we believe further that its lesson for our government is clear: don't interfere in such struggles, be they in Iran, Chile, the Philippines, South Africa, or elsewhere. Only then will Americans be regarded as friends by the people of these countries. Jack Levine Counsel and Treasurer, U.S. People's Committee on Iran
That dispute concerns the area around three rocky little islands in the Beagle Channel,*at the tip of South America. Since 1881, Chile has more or less controlled the islands and Argentina has claimed them. As long ago as 1896, the two countries called on Queen Victoria to settle the matter, but when she ruled in favor of Chile, the angry Argentines balked. In 1977 an international tribunal appointed by the British government supported Chile's claim, and once again the Argentines objected. So last month, amid threats of war, the two strongly Catholic countries accepted Pope John Paul...
...Pope manages to settle the Beagle affair, he may find himself saddled with more chores of the same kind. Bolivia wants him to persuade Chile to return Bolivia's access to the sea, which Chile seized in the 1880s. And then there is that little matter in the Middle East...