Word: headstrong
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Begin was caught in a collision between two headstrong members of his government. On one side was Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, a tough administrator who has repeatedly threatened to resign and now stood adamantly opposed to any concession to the teachers. He argued that the proposed pay hikes would cost the government $2 billion over a period of 16 months and aggravate Israel's colossal annual inflation rate. That rate now stands at 140%, the highest in the world...
...meager government experience was limited to a ten-month stint as Minister of Education, a post in which he mainly presided over the closing of schools and universities in the name of "Islamization." President Abolhassan Banisadr, who is constitutionally responsible for nominating the Prime Minister, considered Raja'i headstrong, ill-informed and unfit for the job. In fact, the 47-year-old former mathematics teacher seemed to have had only one thing going for him: a fanatical attachment to the Islamic fundamentalism of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Raja'i is unlikely to be much more than a front man for Beheshti and his clerical allies. The new Prime Minister is unimposing in person; he has no popular following and little apparent political savvy. Critics say that he is "headstrong" only when standing on firm ground. Arrested for distributing antigovernment literature in 1974, Raja'i is said by fellow inmates to have begged for mercy when tortured by SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. "His behavior at the time was certainly not heroic," notes one former prisoner. Students in his math classes at the Kamal...
...Sadegh Khalkhali, an Islamic judge who had sentenced more than 100 Kurdish rebels and officials of the Pahlavi regime to death. When Banisadr denied Khalkhali's right to exercise judicial functions as chief narcotics investigator, the cleric openly defied him, forcing the President to back down. Earlier, the headstrong judge had already defied presidential orders by leading a group of Islamic zealots on a rampage that demolished the Shah's father's marble mausoleum...
...CANNOT CONDONE blanket anti-draft, anti-military activism. Headstrong demonstrators, excited by the thrill of a new cause, are reacting too vehemently to President Carter's proposal to reinstate Selective Service registration. They do not distinguish between the draft, considered an extreme response to the world situation by large numbers both in Congress and across the country, and registration, a possible compromise between flexing American muscle and stepping up military action...