Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenge to his leadership stunned the Shah and outraged his generals, who argued that the demonstrations were surely eroding his authority?and in turn the army's?and must be stopped. Declared an army officer: "We told the Shah, as Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand by itself." Said a general to the Shah: "It is against our military honor to stand the present situation." A lengthy late-night Cabinet meeting followed, and on the morning after, Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami proclaimed a curfew and martial law for six months. Not in a quarter-century had Tehran been...
...first night of curfew [Friday] went. It was calm. But we must expect acts of sabotage and eventually terror. The reason is that the way things were going before [martial law], they [his opponents] didn't have to resort to that. They could have taken over the country-and I don't mean slowly. But if that is not possible for them, then they will resort to certain acts of sabotage and arson...
...ostensible purpose was to secure an additional $250 million in credits to finish a steel mill in Karachi that the Pakistanis are building with Soviet help. But in an interview with TIME, Zia made clear that another purpose of the mission was to warn the U.S. that "I must have my own opening?I must have our options open...
...move that stunned pundits and outraged political opponents, the Prime Minister announced in a four-minute televised address to his countrymen that his minority Labor government would not call for a general election next month, as nearly everyone thought it would. Declared Callaghan: "The government must and will continue to carry out policies which are consistent and determined, which do not chop and change ..." In practical terms, that almost certainly postponed Britain's next election until spring, and under the law Callaghan could draw out the suspense until the following November...
...detect what might be called the Fallacy of Progress. For a century or more, "progress" in penal thinking has signified increasingly humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity. But if progress implies a steady mitigation of punishment, then at some point "punishment" must logically lose its meaning, crossing over to become something else. Besides, not many people are pitilessly marched to jail today for stealing loaves of bread. Poverty may breed crime, but few thieves steal because they are starving in a society of food stamps and welfare...