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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confident reports that the Shah would weather the crisis are gone now, and the American media is taking a bit more care when describing Iran's various power holders. But the American press was more than simply mistaken in its predictions; the distortion and misunderstanding of the nature of Iranian opposition forces reflected nationally held values and opinions that paved the way for a repetition of the United States's most familiar foreign policy fiasco. The Iran that the press and the U.S. government sought was one that would be westernized along the Shah's U.S. inspired model...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Remember The Maine? | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

...impression in the U.S. that there have been important changes in China in the last two years. Is that a mistaken view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Teng Hsiao-p'ing | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...easy to see the people who run Harvard as villains. To say that Derek Bok is an evil man because he will not pressure the Harvard Corporation to take certain economic stands, and because he isolates himself almost completely from undergraduates who want to discuss those stands, is seriously mistaken. To say that Henry Rosovsky is an evil man because he has pronounced views on the role of an undergraduate education with which many students disagree, and because he believes it proper to enforce those views with little regard for those who disagree with him, is equally incorrect. These...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

CHINA HAS NEVER been an easy nation for Americans to understand. One can only hope that Americans will seek to correct our mistaken visions of the past and that a new era is genuinely in the offing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The China Card | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...black communities. According to Atlanta's highly regarded Mayor Maynard Jackson, blacks themselves are increasingly skeptical of black leaders. Says Jackson: "If a black candidate believes he can still excite to the same extent the vote-for-me-because-I'm-black spirit, that candidate is badly mistaken. Black people want to know what the black candidate is going to do for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Black Voices Speak Up | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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