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...hostage crisis is the centerpiece of TIME'S concluding excerpt from Keeping Faith, Carter's account of his four years as President. Carter describes the high expectations and dashed hopes that punctuated the long-running drama. He tells how he tried to deal with the Ayatullah Khomeini as if he were "a rational person, "even though, Carter writes, he "was acting insanely." Carter provides a Commander in Chiefs view of the U.S. military rescue effort that ended with the abandonment of flaming aircraft and eight American bodies in an Iranian desert. He vividly describes the all-night negotiating...
...inconclusive war notable for its size and savagery. An estimated 200,000 soldiers from both sides have died, and 70,000 more have been taken prisoner. Yet even by those grim standards the charge was shocking: that Iran's Islamic Guards, fanatical supporters of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, have massacred substantial numbers of unarmed Iraqi prisoners...
...allegation surfaced last week in Paris, where members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a Muslim socialist party opposed to the Khomeini regime, released photos purporting to be of one such incident. The massacre, said to have occurred last January in Bostan, a town in the southwestern province of Khuzistan, was photographed by Iranian officers sympathetic to the Mujahedin. According to the officers, Islamic Guards assembled a group of Iraqi prisoners in front of pictures of Khomeini and ordered them to chant slogans praising the Ayatullah. Several dozen Iraqis refused. They were led away, and their hands were tied behind their...
...keep up their attacks. In Tehran alone, about 70 Islamic Guards a week are being killed by the Mujahedin. In one elaborate attack last week, the guerrillas staged a noisy motorcade for a pair of supposed newly weds. When Islamic Guards told the "wedding party" that it was against Khomeini's rules to celebrate in the streets, the bride protested loudly. As the argument grew heated and more guards gathered, one of the drivers honked his horn as a signal. The wedding guests suddenly pulled out submachine guns and blasted away. The toll: at least 25 Islamic Guards dead...
...society, which has chapters in large cities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, wants to increase awareness of the Ayatollah's actions in Iran and "make Khomeini internationally isolated." Bahman Ahmaei, an economics student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday...