Word: iranian
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WASHINGTON--Denying reports that the American hostages in Iran could be released this weekend, State Department spokesman, Hodding Carter III, yesterday asked Iranian authorities to clarify their demands...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argues that the U.S. should encourage the Zia regime to try to placate these minority groups-for instance, by granting a measure of autonomy to the Baluchs of southwestern Pakistan. During a 1973-77 rebellion, Harrison recalls, the Pakistan air force used Iranian-supplied U.S. helicopters to raze Baluch villages indiscriminately, thereby unleashing "a legacy of hatred that has merely intensified separatist feelings." Recently, however, some Baluch leaders have told U.S. diplomats that they are worried about the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, and would settle for regional autonomy rather than independence from Islamabad...
...suppression of peasant dissent. Usually, its actions against insurgent campesinos take place in provincial backwaters, thus escaping widespread attention. This time, however, the regime moved against a foreign embassy in the full glare of worldwide publicity. Said one diplomat in Mexico City: "It is worse than the Iranian hostage business. This is outright murder...
Last month Iran expelled about 90 U.S. reporters, photographers and technicians. An Iranian official thought the action might quiet American tempers and "help the situation as a whole." Certainly it's some relief to be spared the nightly sight of camera-conscious Tehran mobs who seem to have nothing else to do but shake their fists on cue and rant against America. In a sense, what is missing is not news but staged photo opportunities. Early in the Iranian crisis, John Chancellor of NBC had worried about getting those demonstrators off TV, fearing a "possible wave of jingoism...
...shouldn't get involved in it." But then, NBC has had an Iranian advantage it doesn't brag about. When other American journalists were expelled, NBC's enterprising John Cochran was allowed to stay on. Publicizing a privilege might end it. But perhaps NBC also fears what the other two networks would say about favoritism. After all, only NBC, in the common eagerness to broadcast an interview with a U.S. hostage, was willing back in December to grant that Iranian woman student six minutes of prime-time propaganda...