Word: hurewitz
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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Many American observers agree that the Shah created his own problem in failing to forge a democratic system of political participation. "The Shah has been imaginative and flexible in his economic and foreign policy, but not politically," says Professor J.C. Hurewitz, director of Columbia University's Middle East Institute. "He's given no freedom to the Iranian intellectuals. The result is that Iran suffers from a political vacuum: the people feel left out of things." One hopeful sign may be that the opposition does not have a common ground. Thus for their own purposes, both left and right would probably...