Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis that was triggered by the Shah's arrival for treatment in New York is much larger than the Shah. As U.S. embassies go up in flames, and Americans are killed, it is difficult to see how any compromise on the Shah can provide more than a first step toward a return to civilized relations with Khomeini's Iran...
Dixie 14: "Now they're beating on the vault door. We don't have much time...
...that fails, he can go before a federal court. A skillful attorney can drag out proceedings for years. Says David Carliner, a leading immigration lawyer: "The Bill of Rights applies to aliens-even illegal aliens-just as much as it does to U.S. citizens...
...months Jimmy Carter has been in training for these hours. There is nothing else that Presidents do that depends so much on the collected wisdom and the seasoned instincts of one man. Nor is there anything so lonely...
Those feet-up gab sessions, those earnest White House breakfasts that are so much a part of domestic politics, are of no account in a dilemma like Iran. It is almost pure decision making from dawn to dawn. There are meetings constantly, but there is always something oddly uncollegial about them. When power is employed, the resolve and foresight of the President are the main ingredients. Without those the apparatus does not work...