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Outside Iran, countries with a major stake in the outcome of the Shah's effort watched and waited uneasily. Iran is vital to the industrialized world not only because it is the second largest exporter of crude oil in the Middle East, but also because it is the "policeman" of the crucial Persian Gulf sea-lanes through which 40% of the non-Communist world's oil is shipped. The U.S. gets 8% of its imported crude from Iran: Western European countries from 20% to 40% of their supply. The impact of the dead stop in Iranian oil shipments...
...that, the Shah's dilemma is mostly one of his own making. The unrest in Iran has its roots in his failure to permit the growth of a responsible opposition to his one-man rule. His commendable effort to modernize Iran by educating its people and raising their standard of living was imperiled from the start by his refusal to allow a greater measure of political expression. Ironically, the forces that the Shah set loose continue to pose the greatest challenge to his regime...
...Johnson remarked in 1973, "the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food or sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. All cultures that can be called cultures have built monuments-that is, buildings of unusual size and expenditure of effort, that have aroused pride and enjoyment as well as utility...
Launched a few weeks ago to coincide with the start of the winter season, the $50 million multination effort, called MONEX (for Monsoon Experiment), is being directed by the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization. At the command post in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, some 70 Americans and Soviets, as well as weather watchers from Asian and other countries, are beginning the first systematic profile of an annual monsoon cycle. Gathering data from an area of some 28 million sq. mi., the scientists have two lofty goals: to explore the origin of monsoon winds so they...
...Crimson had actually driven its effort to the ranks of "listless" earlier in the second, failing to capitalize on three power-play chances. In all, Harvard went 0-for-9 in man-up situations on the afternoon, on four occasions drawing penalties themselves less than 30 seconds into the power play...