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...course, however, Khomeini indulged the Soviets only as long as they were of use to him. Last autumn, despairing of his two-year campaign to obtain major sophisticated weapons systems from Moscow and to halt Soviet arms shipments to the Iraqis, Khomeini began tightening the screws on the Tudeh Party, at first through restrictions in their publications, later through sporadic arrests. Finally, about six months ago, some 25 Communist leaders were casually arrested...
...about the dangers of leaving the region. It is what we said about Algeria and what you said about Viet Nam. You always fail to appreciate the basic problem, which is domestic change. You are in a no-win situation. It would be better to cut your losses and obtain, as you did in Cuba, a guarantee that there will be no Soviet bases there to be used against you. But you cannot prevent domestic political evolution...
...America, a line of coke is as easy to obtain as a bottle of beer. Coke users will cut their habit only when they realize that cocaine is ruining their lives and not before that. All the millions of dollars spent on drug enforcement would be better spent on drug rehabilitation...
...spotlighted others as well. FBI Director William Webster announced last Thursday that the bureau had foiled attempts by Barmyantsev and two other Soviet spies to obtain U.S. secrets. Oleg Konstantinov, 33, an intelligence agent serving at the Soviet mission to the U.N., had been picked up by FBI agents in Manhasset, L.I., in the act of attempting to obtain military aerospace secrets from a U.S. citizen operating "under the control of the FBI," in the cautious words of a bureau spokesman. Konstantinov left the U.S. before he was expelled. Another worker at the Soviet U.N. mission, Alexander Mikheyev...
...recommendations also encourage faculty members to obtain 5-week student evaluations of section leaders and to hold precourse seminars on teaching...