Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direct evidence of the Shah's complicity in executions too. Early this year, SAVAK agents testified before" Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary courts that the Shah, under international pressure to liberalize his regime and therefore eager to hide evidence of repression, gave the secret police a terse oral order in 1975: "Don't take any prisoners. Kill them." In a confession interspersed with sobs, Bahman Naderipour described how he and other agents, in response to this order, took nine political prisoners out of Evin jail in northwest Tehran, handcuffed and blindfolded them and then machine-gunned them...
...other countries the U.S. must live with. These considerations do not exonerate the Shah, but they must be kept in mind by the U.S. as it tries to cope with the real world. Besides, whatever the Shah's offenses, they do not justify the taking of hostages in order to force his surrender to his enemies, which strikes at all international practice and order...
...occur again, as long as the confrontation with Iran remained at flashpoint. Accordingly, the State Department last week called for the departure of all nonessential personnel and dependents among the 1,200 Americans based in elev en Muslim countries and officially discouraged Americans from traveling to them. A similar order had been issued earlier for Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan...
Danz said, however, if students use libraries to get scholarship information, they "would have to spend 90 to 100 hours in order to receive information that they could get from us in an envelope in three days...
Margot N. Gill, fellowship director in the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL), said yesterday she believes mail order services like the Scholarship Bank are inadequate because they do not include necessary counseling...