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...leader of Iran's revolution declared an amnesty for everyone accused of collaborating with the deposed Shah's regime except for "murderers, torturers and plunderers." That was good news to tens of thousands of technocrats, industrial managers, professional people and university professors who fled Iran after the overthrow of the Shah. Calling upon the exiles to return home, President Abolhassan Banisadr declared: "It is only here, and nowhere else, that you will find the opportunity to be perfect human beings " But the Ayatullah's ruling, welcome as it was to the exiles and to 70 political prisoners...
Ever since the overthrow of Military Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero by a group of junior army officers last October, the civilian-military junta has been powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from...
...reading of the charges, followed inevitably by a verdict of guilty. This time the defendants were represented by a team of able defense lawyers. The chief of the five-member panel of military judges gave the accused ample opportunity to refute charges that they had attempted to overthrow the government with the help of subversive organizations abroad. Some defendants eloquently expressed their aspirations for democratic reform in Taiwan. The island's many daily newspapers were permitted to publish the defendants' speeches in detailed and uncensored accounts of each day's proceedings. As a result, Taiwan...
...that we will not bring about an immediate disruption of the economy; we can work in gradual phases until we get to our goal. In the civil service, of course, racialism will have to go. But it would be a very foolish man who would immediately take over and overthrow the system...
...arms to fight on the side of the Liberators, or to move directly in some other form to support that armed struggle. We can denounce apartheid in the forums of the United Nations and the nonaligned movement, but we wouldn't regard it as our direct responsibility to overthrow the South African government. South Africa is a different proposition from Rhodesia, where a group of settlers revolted against their queen and then also revolted against the general will of the people. South Africa consolidated itself on the basis of an independence it was granted [by Britain] in 1910. What...