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...designed to help bring about an American resurgence. On the contrary: they can only help thrust America back upon itself and thus ultimately hurt Europe. If, through arrogance or fear or misjudgment, Europe's leaders were to count America out too soon, they would not be readily forgiven in the U.S. - nor, perhaps ultimately, in their own countries. &$151;By Henry Grunwald
...starter has always intoned the imperative: "Gentlemen, start your engines." Umpires immemorially have shouted: "Play ball!" Runners have forever been instructed: "On your mark, set, go!" But when the horses reached the starting gate for the 112th running of the Belmont Stakes, Track Caller Marshall Cassidy could have been forgiven if he were tempted to mix phrases...
...lieutenant's wooing of a hardened but unhappy gangster. Their love causes Bill Cracker to fall afoul of the gang's sinister leader, the Fly, and results in Sister Lillian's expulsion in disgrace from the Army. Through a series of predictable and improbable coincidences, all are reunited and forgiven, and the two camps join hands to form an army of the poor to fight the "real enemy"--capitalism...
...Shah. But in 1978, apparently as part of a continuing effort to improve its often tempestuous relations with the Shah, Iraq's government asked Khomeini to leave the country, thereby obliging him to spend the last four months of his exile in France. Khomeini has neither forgotten nor forgiven that insult. Last week he openly urged Iraqis to "wake up and topple this corrupt regime in your Islamic country before it is too late." With comparably strong provocation against the Iraqi government, headed by President Saddam Hussein, Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr said that Iran welcomed the opportunity of "liberating...
...head of the Islamic Republic Party, Beheshti was primarily responsible for forcing the resignation of Iran's first postrevolution Prime Minister, Mehdi Bazargan-who has neither forgiven nor forgotten. Beheshti endorsed the militants takeover of the U.S. embassy, and supports their refusal to turn the hostages over to the government. Once again, many Iranians believe, Beheshti is motivated less by ideology than by expediency and could well abandon the students if their cause seems lost. Observers note that Beheshti has never allowed the charter of his party to be published. Says one critic: "He does not want to commit...