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Meanwhile, the Bazargan regime moved quickly to try to assert its authority. In the northwest, near Iran's border with Iraq, Khomeini loyalists battled with members of Iran's Kurdish minority, who hoped that the upheaval might help them realize their longtime dream of breaking away from Tehran's control. Other revolutionary groups disarmed the few military units still loyal to the Shah. In Tehran, shopkeepers happily set out red and pink carnations to celebrate the reopening of the city's long shuttered bazaar district, and children marched off to classes in newly reopened schools...
...respond not as a superpower but as a friend of the Arabs." Added another official: "Camp David is no longer our No. 1 priority." What alarmed the Egyptians was the specter of a highly armed, militant Iran making common cause with such radically anti-Israel Arab states as Iraq and Libya. P.L.O. Leader Arafat was reported to have conferred with Ayatullah Khomeini in Tehran last weekend, and the Iranians have declared their intention of turning the sacked Israeli mission in Tehran into a Palestinian embassy...
...price to $13.34 per bbl. The cartel had scheduled a raise in steps to $14.55 by October. But at the present rate of increase, oil from Abu Dhabi and Qatar then would be selling at $16.32 per bbl. Other oil producers, notably such anti-Western militants as Libya and Iraq, are expected to make similar increases. Says one top U.S. oil company official: "I guess now the sky's the limit...
There is certainly reason to worry; Iran's Jewish community is not well integrated into the rest of the community. As in other countries, anti-semetism is rampant. The situation is almost identical to that in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq (let me remind you of the public hangings of Jews in Iraq a few years ago). I am not simply speculating! There are going to be massacres in Iran--unless something is done and done quickly...
Whatever the truth, the principals were coolly going about their business last week. The tireless Tito visited Iraq, Syria and Jordan, while Minutic was singing La Traviata in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Minutic's father, when reached at his home in Dalmatia, denied the gossip about his daughter's romance. "The only thing they have in common," he said, "is their love for good music...