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Meanwhile the Communist Party youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, depicted the U.S. as a society "where terror is a phenomenon of daily life." And Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini said about Reagan, even before he knew the President was not seriously hurt: "We are not going to mourn...
Fallaci herself gains from the fact that some of her best subjects-like the Ayatullah Khomeini or Colonel Gaddafi-are not used to being questioned so un-deferentially. Almost all American public figures have long since been overinterviewed. Often they have nothing fresh to say. Put them before cameras, and their minds instinctively begin to work on what...
...must not let our joy blind us to reality. The British made a patriotic myth out of Dunkirk, based on courage and exertion, but Dunkirk was still a staggering defeat. The overthrow of the Shah by Khomeini was a defeat for American foreign policy, heightened by our impotence during the hostage crisis. We are still in serious trouble in the Persian Gulf. That is what we have to remember...
Goodman populates this basic plot with characters from Keynes to Khomeini; he simplifies economic theory without being condescending; he gracefully adjusts simplistic views to cohere with the complexities of a world in which things are rarely what they seem and where one must choose enemies more carefully than friends...
...safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned out to be well grounded. Samghabadi was arrested and terrorized in an effort to use him to frame Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, former Foreign Minister and a close associate of the Ayatullah Khomeini, as an agent of the CIA. He refused and was subjected to a mock execution. Now safe in the U.S., Samghabadi tells of his arrest-and flight...