Word: give
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protesters gathered in downtown Tehran outside the U.S. embassy, a 27-acre compound surrounded by ten-and twelve-foot brick walls and secured with metal gates. The students, most of whom were unarmed, chanted anti-American slogans and carried banners: DEATH TO AMERICA IS A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT and GIVE us THE SHAH. At the very hour at which the demonstration was taking place in Tehran, the Ayatullah Khomeini was telling a student in the holy city of Qum, some 80 miles to the south, that foreign "enemies" were plotting against the Iranian revolution. Repeatedly, he charged that the American embassy...
...headed for the ambassador's residence, where the servants offered no resistance (there has been no U.S. ambassador in Tehran since William Sullivan left in April). Others tried to take over the chancellery but found it protected with armor plating and grillwork. Using bullhorns, they shouted at the occupants: "Give up and you won't be harmed! If you don't give up, you will be killed!" As the attackers struggled to get inside, other protesters and a crowd of curiosity seekers clambered over the embassy walls and swarmed through the compound...
...Lebanese civil war. The Administration was reluctant to depart from U.S. policy toward the P.L.O., namely, that it will not recognize or negotiate with the organization until it acknowledges Israel's right to exist. From the Administration's viewpoint, however, the safety of the hostages was more important than giving the P.L.O. a chance to gain a bit of image-building publicity. If Arafat's emissaries were successful, the Palestinians could boast that they had turned the other cheek by helping Israel's protector and ally; if they failed, the world would at least give them credit for trying...
...that reflected the deep schisms within the party. Though none of the faction chiefs personally accepted positions, Ohira was forced to pass over many of his closest allies in handing out the portfolios; 15 of his 20 ministers are in their first Cabinet jobs. He has also agreed to give some key party positions, including the post of secretary-general, to members of rival factions. Despite these fence-mending efforts, the party's wounds are far from healed. Vowed Fukuda: "The first round is over, but the second has just begun...
...most significant thing the public did last week was to give a rousing vote of confidence to Daniel arap Moi, 55. Arap Moi has been Kenya's President since the death 14 months ago of Jomo Kenyatta, the autocratic old warrior who secured the East African country's inde pendence from Britain in 1963 and ruled it like a benign colonial governor ever after. Not only did Arap Moi run without opposition in his own district,* but many old Kenyatta regime holdovers were ousted. Arap Moi will now be free to put his own imprint on Kenya...