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...latest hysterical outburst in Iran, where sometimes nobody seems to be in charge, and sometimes everybody, worsened Jimmy Carter's problem. Talleyrand, the 19th century French diplomat, cautioned against "too much zeal." But how to deal with a nation of zealots, who do not play by the rules of law, who do not or cannot keep their promises, who seem more inclined to martyrdom than to statecraft...
...past month, what may have been seen by some as sudden inappropriate expressions of anger on the part of Third World students have in fact been natural outburst of long-submerged frustration. As we see oppressed people in the nations from which we descent shaking off the humiliating yolk of western domination world-wide, we draw strength for our struggles. Our perspective is truly Third World. As our pride grows, so does our anger at the ignorance and insensitivity of the larger community at Harvard. We will not continue to suppress this feeling...
With that dramatic outburst, the two-week siege lapsed back into a tense standoff. Negotiating for her fellow terrorists, the woman had just rejected a promising response by the Colombian government to the most sensitive guerrilla demand: the release of 311 accused terrorists, most of them M-19 members, from Colombian jails. The proposal: speeding up the trials and sentencing of more than 200 prisoners now held under military detention. The concession almost certainly would have meant early acquittal for some. Others would have been freed if their sentences matched time already spent in jail. Still other detainees would probably...
...similar three-goal Matignon outburst began the second stanza, and two more tallies ended the period, as the Green and Gold upped their lead...
...these programs swallow 77% of the entire budget and are rising at a dizzying pace. One option that Administration officials say they are considering is to slow the rise in Social Security benefits by modifying the formula that ties those benefits to the Consumer Price Index. That brought an outburst that typified the inflation fighters' problems. Cyril Brickfield, head of the American Association of Retired Persons, wrote to President Carter that doing so would "cause millions of older people to suffer a severe reduction in their purchasing power...