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...pinnacle by simple negligence. His bold designs to supplant the late Shah of Iran as the watchdog and kingpin of the Persian Gulf have made him a force to be reckoned with throughout the region. At times, in fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge on megalomania. Saddam's portrait hangs everywhere in Iraq, from coffeehouses to supermarket check-out counters. Poets eulogize him in the press ("Since there...
...pluralistic democracy coexist with a monarch at its head? The answer lies in the constitution, in the division of power, and in the personality of the "king" himself. De Gaulle's Fifth Republic prescribes an almost absolute executive. Disdainful of the "regime of the parties" that stalemated governments of the Third and Fourth Republics, the general reduced the role of the legislative and the judiciary to little more than docile vassals for government directives. The system lacks the checks and balances that were deliberately built into the U.S. system, allowing Giscard to maneuver in ways Jimmy Carter could never hope...
Ford's new offering this year, in addition to the Escort and Lynx, is a redesigned Ford Granada. The car, which will be marketed also as a Mercury Cougar, is 500 lbs. lighter than the old Granada and Mercury Monarch. But, like other standard Ford products, it has a "big car" look, which could hurt in a market that is demanding small autos...
Thus, even as the deposed Shah clung stubbornly to life in Cairo's Maadi Military Hospital following abdominal surgery, the mullahs waged war on his ghost in Iran. Thousands of photographs of the ousted monarch were burned in mass bonfires, the Pahlavi crest was hastily scissored from government stationery, and workmen hammered stone bas-reliefs of the imperial crown from the façades of public buildings. Hundreds of civil servants and teachers who were accused of having ties with the former regime were purged from government offices and universities...
...events in the past year, he says, have really stirred his blood: helping Carter get rid of Cabinet Officers Joe Califano and Mike Blumenthal, thwarting Ted Kennedy, and working on the release of the hostages. He gets worked up when he talks of meetings with the Shah, recalling the monarch's piercing eyes staring suspiciously at him, refusing to believe that no country except Panama would accept him. He dealt covertly for months with the Iranians, and they had their own name for this American who might break the impasse: the Cowboy...