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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrival, he called the deadlocked Middle East negotiations "one of the most frustrating and discouraging experiences I have ever had in my life." He termed the differences between the two sides "some absolutely insignificant difficulties" and added, "It is just disgusting almost to feel that we are that close and can't quite...
Bill counted eight top Khomeini aides who either have lived in the U.S. or have children going to school here, and six who are "very close to France and to Western Europe." Included are two members of Khomeini's Revolutionary Council, Dr. Ibrahim Yazdi and Abbas Amir Entezam. Yazdi lived in Houston for ten years. He studied with Bill, who said, "He is a very serious, pro-American, solid kind of personality." Entezam received a degree in structural engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and "is about as American as you can possibly get," said Bill...
...about the guy sitting out there in Morocco"). Offer the new government technical, agricultural, industrial and educational aid. Disavow convincingly any thought of sponsoring a countercoup, still a subject of great worry to the Iranian revolutionaries. Replace U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, who is thought to have been too close to the Shah. Train some of our State Department officers in Farsi "and send them over in waves. And get people over there very quickly who understand Shi'ite Islam...
Boulez's view of Lulu is close to Stravinsky's. "As Mahler did for the symphony, Berg simultaneously amplified and destroyed the traditional outline," Boulez says. "Today the relationship between music and theater requires different conditions, for which Berg set the precedent...
...generation later, the awe has turned into fear. Studies now show that an unusually high number of those Utah youngsters exposed to nuclear fallout eventually died of leukemia. Similarly, there are indications of a high cancer rate among military personnel who observed the tests at close range. At the same time, other investigations are finding high incidences of cancer among the workers who overhaul nuclear submarines at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Me. This evidence raises anew one of the most difficult questions of the nuclear age: What is the minimum threshold at which even seemingly low levels...