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...surrogates are vocally supporting the Khomeini regime. The apparent Soviet-Tudeh strategy is to avoid a premature Communist revolution, and instead let the clerical regime crumble through its own incompetence and internal schisms. Moscow is therefore wary of the more impatient and militant leftist groups; should any of those maverick parties come to power, they would probably have to fear the Kremlin's wrath more than that of the defeated mullahs. In the words of a longtime Iranian Communist: "Moscow is willing to have any regime on its southern borders-Khomeini's, the Shah's, even Franco...
...leaders are not expected to clash over ideology or basic policy. They are all Tito loyalists, committed to his basic principles: a federal political system for maintaining Yugoslavia's national unity, the unique system of worker self-management of factories that characterizes the country's maverick brand of Marxism, and strict nonalignment between East and West. Says one French diplomat: "The country's leadership and people will unite at the slightest hint of Soviet menace...
...come." Indeed, it was hard to imagine any lesser mortal replacing the gregarious and vital Tito, who, almost without challenge, had ruled Yugoslavia for nearly 35 years and his country's Communist Party for 41. He was, for many years, the Kremlin's least favorite Marxist-a maverick who wrested Yugoslavia from Moscow's grasp in 1948 to create an unorthodox Communism incorporating traces of free enterprise. He was also a defiant co-founder of the nonaligned movement that has become the dominant force in the Third World. In the year before his death he visited Cuba...
...most ways, Barragán is a maverick in the architectural establishment. He has frequently deplored what he calls "architects' architecture" and admits no debt to the International Style of the Bauhaus. He uses the plainest of materials ? adobe, raw beams, cobbles ? to create astringently el egant effects. His commitment is not to community or social function but to privacy: "Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices...
...realities involved. How can Joe Restic turn out a presentable squad without showing interest in sought-after high school football players? How can Harvard compete without demonstrating interest comparable to that expressed by other Ivy institutions which don't have the benefit of the Harvard mystique? Even the maverick Giamatti said Sunday he would not take unilateral action at Yale without the agreement of the Ivy group...