Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church staked out a position against the Viet Nam War as early as 1965. He has long advocated the normalization of U.S. relations with mainland China. He fought hard for the Panama Canal Treaties. He opposed the unlimited sale of arms to the Shah of Iran on the prophetic ground that the Shah's throne was too shaky...
Jimmy Carter expects criticism from the left and from the right; he may even welcome it as solidifying his own position in the political center. But now he has received a stinging rebuke from someone who shares roughly the same middle ground. In a near unprecedented attack from a party regular, Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois has called Carter "embarrassingly weak" in both domestic and foreign policy. He added that the President's staff is "bush league...
...people, who crashed the lock and surged into the compound. Suddenly several Khomeini men pushed through the crowd and began shooting in the direction of the embassy, apparently at the attackers. A young man with a white headband moving next to me about three feet away pitched to the ground, wounded...
...Tell Carter he's finished." People started fires to disperse the tear gas, but whenever a fire started to get out of hand, there would be shouts of "Don't burn anything. Save it!" All the while, bullets filled the air, ricocheting off the ground and buildings. Then several gunmen stopped firing and yelled to the others: "Stop! Orders from Khomeini...
...Correspondent William Drozdiak: "A number of individuals in the new Iranian government studied in the U.S., and will bring to bear the expertise and talents they acquired during their time here. I do think Iran will have a more nonaligned policy in the future, but we can find common ground and work together...