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...Mohsen Abu Maizer: "Why do you want to compare the Soviet Union, which is offering help and support to the Palestinian people and the Arab cause, to America, which is feeding Israel with weapons in order to kill the Palestinian people?" Among the leading opponents of this pro-Soviet faction was Ghotbzadeh, who asserted that "the liberation of Afghanistan is not less important than the liberation of Palestine." But the U.S. found no outspoken defenders, although certain delegates quietly expressed sympathy for the hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHWEST ASIA: Muslim Ministers Blast the U.S. | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...Banisadr. Not only did his candidates make a dismal showing in the second round of parliamentary elections; he also lost a battle in his power struggle with the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. As the President and the mullahs jockeyed for control of Iran's wayward revolution, the faction-ridden and economically strapped regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini slipped ever closer to chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Leftists: A Waiting Game | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...Socialists failed to reckon with anti-Ohira L.D.P. factions, led by former Prime Ministers Takeo Fukuda and Takeo Miki and former Defense Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. The rebels had been demanding that Ohira, 70, step down. Even so, they were not expected to seriously split the party. After the vote, Fukuda insisted that he had warned his faction members against such a move. "It was a big miscalculation," he said. Later, however, he refused to rule out the possibility that he might bolt and form a new conservative party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Miscalculation! | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...Saudis had reason to feel wronged. Like so-called faction literature, the TV hybrid known as documentary drama typically consists of real-life events embedded in a marzipan of speculation and romance. In Princess, co-produced by Britain's independent Association Television network and WGBH, the PBS station in Boston, the marzipan is the message. South African-born Director Antony Thomas set out to film a straight drama on the life and death of Princess Mashall, a lively young grandniece of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid. Mashall, whose arranged marriage soured, supposedly went to study at a Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Death Drama Stirs a Royal Row | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...battle just as stiff may be brewing in Cambridgeport, where the Community Development Department is currently surveying all properties to come up with a plan for growth. One neighborhood faction is for development at any cost. "The blight of the Simplex site is encroaching on our homes," James Caragianes says. Another group also wants to see the site used, but preferably by industry. East Cambridge, where massive infusions of federal money have increased incentives for development, is the best example of successful planning in Cambridge, Vickery says...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Trouble Developing? | 5/6/1980 | See Source »

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