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While the military has issued dire warnings that it will "not allow Turkey to be trampled underfoot by those who want to split the country," the soldiers appear unwilling to be dragged into a coup. Senior officers privately admit that there is little they can do to stop the killings beyond what they are already doing in the 20 provinces in which the army administers martial law. Moreover, intervention by the army would upset Turkey's Western allies, which are in no mood to tolerate a military dictatorship in a NATO country. A coup would also jeopardize the flow...
...effort to subvert dire suspicions of economic collapse, the Republicans have put their best hooves forward on the Senate floor, lurching from tax cut proposal to tax cut proposal. Usurping the populist initiative by adopting a stance historically reserved as a presidential re-election panacea, the GOP in the name of its soon-to-be coronated nominee Ronald Reagan has stolen some traditional Democratic thunder. President Carter last week called the proposal "irresponsible," adding that it would prove the first step in a plan that could cost the Federal Treasury $280 billion a year...
Environmental Concerns: It is certainly not accurate to portray me or the industry as anti-environmentalist. We are making a plea for proper balance between clean air and water, and the dire need for energy. I think the industry has a good record. The problems are brought about by a few obstructionists who have used environmental legislation in a manner never intended by the legislators. These obstructionists are basically antibusiness groups and "no-growth" theorists. Some have been appointed to influential Government jobs...
Carter is vainly trying to intimidate nation yearning for martyrdom. We prefer to ride donkeys, live in dire misery, but never again to become enslaved under U.S. domination." So said Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, speaking from the balcony of his home north of Tehran and, as usual, fulminating against America. He was not the only one. In Iran last week everyone, it seemed, had it in for the U.S. Some 500 delegates from 50 countries met in the capital for the express purpose of castigating "U.S. interventions in Iran." Among them was a group of ten prominent Americans, headed by former...
...apparent to all that the parliament was coming into being at a time when Iran could hardly have faced graver problems: a dangerously deteriorating economy, mounting internal strife, and growing international isolation. In his own address, Banisadr emphasized Iran's dire economic predicament. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 50%. Unemployment has risen to a third of the work force. Exports of oil, which once totalled 6 million bbl. daily under the Shah, have slowed to 700,000. Moreover, half of Iran's foreign exchange reserve of $15 billion is frozen in U.S. banks at home...