Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Major General Hassan Pakravan, a former head of SAVAK, told his trial judges: "I accepted all the responsibilities then, and I accept them now." Air Force General Amir Hussein Rabii expressed his anger at U.S. General Robert E. Huyser, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, who had been sent to Iran with the goal of persuading the military leaders not to mount a coup against the Shah's last Premier, Shahpour Bakhtiar. Huyser, said Rabii, "came and picked up the Shah like a dead mouse by its tail and threw him out." The former air force chief...
...Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and Amnesty International have issued protests against the Iranian trials. No complaints have been registered by any Islamic nation. Until last week, the Carter Administration had refrained from comment, apparently concerned that criticism might endanger the lives of the 3,200 Americans still living in Iran. But after U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan returned to Washington for consultation-expectations are that he will be replaced and a new ambassador named this week-the State Department issued a guarded statement about "the executions of persons who are apparently denied internationally accepted standards of justice...
Many of Britain's 35 million voters agree that the May 3 general election could be the country's most significant since World War II. If nothing else, the electorate will be presented with a clear choice, not an echo. Labor's standard-bearer is avuncular James Callaghan, 67, a soothingly familiar leader of his party with a simple message: jobs and trust. His Tory opponent is Margaret Thatcher, 53, determined to become not only Britain's first woman Prime Minister but a rigorously conservative one as well. Her message to the voters was equally plain...
...must assent before a private lawyer can actually argue a criminal case in court, but some are willing just to make a statement of the case at the beginning of the trial and turn the rest over to the lawyer hired by the victim's family. Kentucky Attorney General Robert Stephens sees no legal or ethical barrier, but former U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, now a law professor at the University of Chicago, has some doubts. He warns that the judge must be careful to see that the defendant is not getting railroaded...
...cubist who emerged after 1906. Kitaj, on the other hand, devotes a number of his drawings to making strange pasiches of immature Picasso, the artist of the blue period, with his wistful clowns and phthisic women. Kitaj's three Bathers, with their iridescent blooms of pastel and general air of tentative anxiety, pay homage to the blue period. But they stare from the paper with the look of rough creatures trapped in an alien element, refugees from Goya and Velásquez as well as from the 20th century. This ability to suggest cultural continuity in the midst...