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...shamed before the nation. Free I me or execute me." With that dramatic statement, former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh confessed on Iranian television last week that he had participated in a plot to overthrow the government and assassinate its spiritual leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Looking tired and drawn, Ghotbzadeh told a bizarre story in which he implicated an other powerful religious leader, the Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Shariatmadari. The plot purportedly called for Khomeini's house to be bombed or rocketed while he was meeting with government leaders. After that, attacks were to be launched against headquarters...
...force. That would give Israel the excuse to mount a full-scale invasion, defeat the P.L.O. in the Beirut area and then vanquish the Syrians if they were foolish enough to get involved. The P.L.O. would be routed and, the thinking goes, would shift its attention to Jordan, overthrow King Hussein and turn the country into a Palestinian state. Israel would meanwhile annex the West Bank...
...that there is "evidence, if not 100% conclusive, that D'Aubuisson and his group are responsible for the murder of Archbishop Romero." White also linked D'Aubuisson to the right-wing death squads, a charge that D'Aubuisson denies. He has been accused of plotting to overthrow the present junta but never brought to trial...
Just five weeks ago--February 19--an overthrow caught Chicarello in the lower left eye. "Since then," he said yesterday, "I've finally learned patience "Chicarello added. "I couldn't do anything for a month, and watching everyone else work was the worst part, but I waited like the doctor said I started hitting again Monday and I'm pretty pleased...
...components--ample resources, and the will to use them." If the military budget is big enough and the president is man enough, than we are unstoppable. The unique conditions which existed in Cuba at the time of the Bay of Pigs (all of which signalled a certain failure to overthrow Castro) were hardly taken into consideration. Why bother? Of course, there is a lesson to be learned from The Kennedy Imprisonment, a lesson which Wills rightly thinks the country should take to heart: Don't equate power with physical strength or with talking tough. America was guilty of hero-worship...