Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This nation's lust for oil [Feb. 26] is a national disgrace. In order to get our daily "fix" we are willing to coddle tyrants, insult friends and grovel before reactionary regimes. Once it was feared that mankind would be "crucified upon a cross of gold"; now it appears that it will be crushed by a barrel...
Carter aides cast the journey in personal terms, almost as if the President stood apart from the nation. Their accounts of Carter's determination shone with the bright hopes of the missionary, the sense left with listeners that only Carter could bring the healing grace...
Only a month ago Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had lavishly praised Mehdi Bazargan, his choice as the first Prime Minister of postrevolutionary Iran, for his "confidence in the holy writ of Islam" and his "past record in the national and Islamic struggle." By last week, the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader's view had changed sharply. Speaking to theological students at his headquarters in the holy city of Qum, he rapped his slightly younger (71) appointee. "You are weak, mister," he thundered. He also lambasted Bazargan's 17-member Cabinet as "weak characters" who believe that "everything...
...assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally outside the brown brick house where Mossadegh is buried, his grandson-in-law, Dr. Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities like the Kurds, the abolition of censorship and worker control of factories. Says he: "In front of us is nothing but light. If a nation...
...allow such places to pass into alien or developing hands would indeed confirm the death of a nation's soul...