Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week a climax to the hostages' ordeal, by either their trial or release, seemed closer. Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told Western reporters that "as soon as possible" the government would announce the hostages' fate. Many will be released, he said, but an undisclosed number will be tried as spies. The trials will be conducted by the same revolutionary tribunals that have sentenced some 630 Iranians to execution. Said Ghotbzadeh: "Those who can be proved not to have consciously engaged in espionage will be freed." Asked if any of the hostages convicted would be sentenced...
...those dark 25 years, the American Embassy developed into an active policymaking center for deciding the fate of the Iranian people, and was indispensable for the survival of the Shah's regime. It is well-known in Iran that American Ambassadors were close advisors to the Shah and that the Enbassy was involved in the assignment of the top-level civilian and military posts. In short, despite President Carter's failing memory, the American government has been directly responsible for the the events in Iran during the Shah's regime. And this is in the name of you, the American...
...immediate issue remained the 49 hostages in Tehran. Concern about their fate far overshadowed any relief about the return of the 13 hostages?five white women and eight black men?who were freed by their captors and who made it home for Thanksgiving dinner. As the 13 stepped off the C-135 military jet that brought them into Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, dozens of relatives who had been flown there from all over the country rushed to embrace them. But the official welcoming could not be jubilant. Said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Our relief that...
...Georgescu managed to escape this fate through his Western contacts, he is "very pessimistic for the future of professors and students who remain in socialist Romania." Until 1974 many intellectuals sincerely believed that something good could be expected from the regime. Most were willing to "give it a chance." Nowadays the picture has changed. The personal nature of the regime, the "crazy cult of personality," which has developed in Romania, has totally disenfranchised the intellectuals. Few choices remain: to stay, to speak up and risk dearly, or to leave. There is indeed no easy...
Silber richly deserves this fate. In his eight years as president he has systematically subverted academic freedom and violated the rights of students, professors, and staff...