Word: khomeini
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...term, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the most dangerous incident of the cold war, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lyndon Johnson's presidency became a battle of wills between Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. Johnson lost. Jimmy Carter found himself squared off against the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Desert One, site of the failed attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in 1980, was Carter's Bay of Pigs -- and, as it turned out, his Waterloo...
There were obviously differences among those cases. Castro had the backing of another, now deceased superpower. Ho was a nationalist waging a civil war, as well as a Kremlin ally waging an ideological one. Khomeini was the avatar of Islamic rage against the West. But they also had something in common: by dodging American bullets, sometimes literally, each enhanced his standing in various quarters of the Third World...
...each lived to see his American nemesis leave office, one way or another. Castro has already outlived Kennedy by 29 years. By the time Ho died in 1969, U.S. opposition to the Vietnam War had driven Johnson back to Texas. Khomeini went on taunting the Great Satan for nine years after Carter's defeat. Reagan may have given Gaddafi the scare of his life, but only one of them is in retirement...
...concessions that cost it little. It looked the other way when Syria tightened its grip on Lebanon. It continued to release blocked Iranian funds. Last week Washington handed over $278 million it owed Tehran for American-made ships and planes that Iran had paid for but never received after Khomeini took power. The U.S. also stopped objecting to other people -- U.N. and Israeli negotiators -- dealing with the kidnappers...
IRAN. Facing stalemate or defeat in the war with Iraq, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1987 personally authorized a full-scale renewal of a nuclear-bomb program that the Shah had begun. The program has survived both the end of the Iran-Iraq war and Khomeini's death; Tehran hardly even bothers to hide its intentions anymore. On Oct. 25, Sayed Ataollah Mohajerani, an Iranian Vice President, told an Islamic conference in Tehran, "Since Israel continues to possess nuclear weapons, we, the Muslims, must cooperate to produce an atom bomb, regardless of U.N. attempts to prevent proliferation...