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Anti-American violence has been steadily on the rise in Iran. Last December, an Iranian policeman died while security forces attempted to disperse a mob of demonstrators at the embassy's gates. Just before New Year's Day, dissidents attempted to crash into the compound; they were chased away by tear-gas-firing Marines. Nevertheless, the force of 19 lightly armed Marines at the compound had not been beefed...
Italy's 40th government since the fall of Fascism in 1943 collapsed with a familiar crash last week, creating a crisis that presaged general elections and, quite possibly, renewed political terrorism. Charging that the Christian Democrats had reneged on an agreement to consult them on important government decisions, the Communists withdrew from an alliance of major parties that had supported the one-party government of Premier Giulio Andreotti in Parliament. Without the backing of the Communist, Socialist, Republican and Social Democratic parties, Andreotti mildly told the Chamber of Deputies, he had no choice except to step down as head...
...Carter Administration, its own record revealed at least the appearance of confusion and paralysis. The Administration was so preoccupied with the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations that it practically forgot about Iran. Then the White House brought in an outsider, former Under Secretary of State George Ball, to do a crash study. Ball was appalled at the confusion. Even as Brzezinski was urging wholehearted support for the Shah, the President told reporters, "I don't know, I hope so," when asked if he thought the Shah could survive. U.S. dependents in Iran were told to stay there; then they were advised...
...conquers the challenges of mood and texture set up by his script, weaving disparate elements into a ripe, dreamlike whole. The film opens in the slapstick manner of a cartoon, then evolves seamlessly into a bucolic Renoir romance. In the second half, Blier stages chase scenes, a benign car crash and a farcical kidnaping-the larky stuff of American screwball comedy. The film's stylized denouement, shot around a wintry mansion, is a surrealist's spooky intimation of tragedy. But even when invoking death, Handkerchiefs is no cause for gloom. By liberating sex from the political and cultural...
Twenty-five local psychologists provided free counseling to city workers and witnesses to the crash. About 100 sought treatment, most of them veteran police officers haunted by their inability to control the chaos and hysteria at the scene of the carnage. The first 16 policemen who came for help all used the word "macho" and talked of themselves as possible failures for seeking therapy. Most urged that the psychologist look at video tapes and photographs of the site, partly to share their sickening feeling, partly to convince the therapist of their manliness. Says Davidson: "They didn't want...