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...Jordans remain, however, a world apart. They are small enough so that everyone knows everyone, a pleasant alternative (for most people) to the anonymity of House life. The coops buy their own food and prepare their own meals, and are de-facto self-governing, with administration handled by a food proctor, treasurer, work-list proctor, and a token tutor. Vegetarians can get good nutritious meals, a rare find at Harvard, and even the carnivores are generally pleased with the diversity of the fare, although calls for more meat periodically arise (tough on a low budget). Fresh-baked bread appears every...
This income has helped Iran partly offset a de facto trade embargo imposed by U.S. longshoremen, who have refused to load cargoes on ships headed for Iran. U.S. exports to Iran in 1978 totaled about $3.7 billion a year and included 25% of Iran's food imports and most of the replacement parts for its weapons and capital machinery. Administration officials maintain that the freeze has furthermore deprived Iran of basic imports such as cooking oils, tires and even valves for Tehran's water supply system. Insisted one Administration spokesman: "The way we see it, the Iranians should...
...Mehdi Bazargan collapsed earlier this month, civilian administration in Iran virtually ceased to exist. In its place stood a powerful, 15-member committee composed of six Islamic mullahs and seven secular figures (there are two vacancies at present) and officially called the Islamic Revolutionary Council. Ayatullah Khomeini, the de facto ruler who declined to manage the government himself, gave the Council a mandate to rule Iran during a two-month transition period until the voters could approve a new theocratic constitution and elect a National Assembly and a President. Whether the internally divided Council will quietly retire after those elections...
...until last Saturday, after a week of retaliation and counterretaliation, that the first apparent break in the conflict came. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's de facto head of state, ordered the students to release the women and blacks, believed to number a dozen, who were being held hostage. "Islam grants to women a special status," explained Khomeini in announcing his decision, and blacks "have spent ages under American pressure and tyranny...
...state that maintains diplomatic relations with the U.S. Their invasion of the embassy violated a principle of diplomatic immunity that even the most radical and hostile governments have professed to respect. Most important of all, their action was condoned?if not instigated?by Khomeini, Iran's de facto head of state and a leader who himself had sought and received political asylum in the West...