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Calling the Nobel prize-winning physicist "a distinguished scientist who has dedicated his life for the past ten years to the cause of human freedom and justice," the cable urged the Soviets to "reconsider your harsh treatment against one of the world's greatest human beings...
...icier than ice" and says, "I swear that I will never understand why he agreed to see me." Ayatullah Khomeini may have agreed to see her because she had been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind that sad face"). Fallaci wore a floor-length black chador to interview the Ayatullah, then, getting angry, dramatically announced, "I'm going to take off this stupid medieval rag right now." She told Libya's dictator, Colonel Gaddafi, that she was going to conduct a "kind...
...burst of candor that will haunt him through his whole campaign, Carter provided an opening for his opponents to accuse him of being an innocent in the harsh world of global politics. When the President conceded to ABC's Frank Reynolds that "my opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week, [more] than even in the previous 2% years," his admission was quickly seized upon. Within Carter's own party, Peter Edelman, chief adviser on issues for Candidate Ted Kennedy, called the President "extraordinarily naive" in his "lack of appreciation of what the Soviets...
...turned upward, as if seeking inspiration from on high?which, as a religious mystic, he indeed is. To Iran's Shi'ite Muslim laity, he is the Imam, an ascetic spiritual leader whose teachings are unquestioned. To hundreds of millions of others, he is a fanatic whose judgments are harsh, reasoning bizarre and conclusions surreal. He is learned in the ways of Shari'a (Islamic law) and Platonic philosophy, yet astonishingly ignorant of and indifferent to non-Muslim culture. Rarely has so improbable a leader shaken the world...
Outraged reaction came swiftly from the White House. In the strongest language he has ever directed against Moscow, President Carter, in a televised message, said: "Such gross interference in the internal affairs of Afghanistan is in blatant violation of accepted international rules of behavior." He conveyed the same harsh message to Leonid Brezhnev personally on the rarely used White House-Kremlin hot line. At the same time, the President got in touch directly with Western European leaders and President Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq of Pakistan, among others, in an attempt to obtain a collective condemnation of Moscow. All shared...