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...depth of its commitment to the Shah apparently blinded Washington to the growing discontent. U.S. policymakers wanted to believe that their investment was buying stability and friendship; they trusted what they heard from the monarch, who dismissed all opposition as "the blah-blahs of armchair critics." Even after the revolution began, U.S. officials were convinced that "there is no alternative to the Shah." Carter took time out from the Camp David summit in September 1978 to phone the Iranian monarch and assure him of Washington's continued support...
...spying for Israel. Defenders of Khomeini's regime argue with some justification that far fewer people were condemned by the revolutionary courts than were tortured to death by the Shah's SAVAK, and that the swift trials were necessary to defuse public anger against the minions of the deposed monarch...
...Although the front-running G.O.P. presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, urged that the Shah should be given asylum, Republicans (52%) as well as Democrats (64%) opposed that course. What if turning over the Shah to the Iranians were the only way to free the hostages? Some 62% said the deposed monarch should not be extradited in return for their release; only 29% said he should be sent to Iran...
...makes all the rest of us look like the Third World." Where, Bette asks sweetly, with only the faintest hint of bitchery, does Her Majesty get her hats? Pretending to sew, she conjures up a whole line of milliners in the basement of Buckingham Palace, threading needles for their monarch at that very moment. Then, she notes, there is that noble equestrienne, Princess Anne. How would Anne answer if someone asked how old she was? Bette wonders. Without a word, she provides the answer: very slowly, like a trained horse at the circus, she taps out the number with...
...officials had been scrambling to find a suitable host country for the Shah since Mexico announced last month that he would not be allowed to return there. When Panama expressed interest last week in accepting the deposed monarch, Jimmy Carter dispatched White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan to Panama City to talk with Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera. The two men had developed a good rapport during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations in 1977, and after a long afternoon session with Jordan, Torrijos agreed to extend a firm invitation...