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Vinogradov argued that the growing discontent of fundamentalist, right-wing clergymen with Khomeini's policies, together with what he called the "CIA-backed leftists" of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (People's Crusaders), had brought Iran to the brink of a civil war. Vinogradov told Mousavi that Iran would be ripe for a U.S.-backed counterrevolution. His deal: increased Soviet protection, presumably in the form of arms and technical advisers, in exchange for a formal five-to ten-year "friendship and mutual assistance treaty" between the U.S.S.R. and Iran. The Kremlin would stand ready to defend Iran against "foreign...
Creationists were disappointed but undaunted. Many had conceded the outcome in advance, contending that Overton made up his mind before the testimony began. Moral Majority Leader Jerry Falwell charged that Arkansas Attorney General Steve Clark "doomed" his case by snubbing Fundamentalist scientific and legal experts who specialize in this issue. Creationist strategists even coaxed one of Clark's scientific witnesses into leaving town before he was scheduled to testify, rather than join a lost cause...
...Fundamentalist lawyers believe they will make a better fight of it in an upcoming federal trial on a similar law in Louisiana. Unlike Arkansas, Louisiana will not have to defend as pure science the hardline beliefs in a worldwide flood at the time of Noah, or the "relatively recent" creation of the world-about 10,000 years ago. The Louisiana law, says Attorney General William Guste, "requires only the teaching of facts that point to creation and does not say what facts. The Arkansas law mixes science and religious teaching. Louisiana's law does...
Stephen Jay Gould, professor of Geology, was a chief witness at the trial. His testimony in U.S. District Court in Little Rock tried to show how fossil records disproved a sudden recent appearance of life, as Fundamentalist groups purport...
This new case, coming 56 years after the Scopes "monkey trial," was testimony of that. But this time around, claim Fundamentalists, opponents of the new law are the ones guilty of censorship. When the Arkansas legislature overwhelmingly passed the Balanced Treatment Act last March, the American Civil Liberties Union went on red alert. Though the act explicitly says it is nonreligious, its origins are indisputably Fundamentalist. Such "neutral" bills, requiring that creation science be taught side by side with evolution, have been promoted for years by California's Institute for Creation Research, one of many such groups lobbying against...