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...Last Tuesday Jordan called a meeting to hear their complaints. Speech Writer Hendrik Hertzberg said he could not shake "an uneasy feeling that we're slipping down a slippery slope toward a military confrontation." Eizenstat said he was worried about a disruption in world oil supplies if other Persian Gulf countries reacted to U.S. military moves by cutting oil shipments to the West. Insisted Jordan: "'The President has made no decision, not even a tentative one, to embark on such a course." When news of the dissension leaked out, Brzezinski was furious, terming such disclosures "a sickening business...
...type inherent in the attempt of the U.S." It complained that the raid had "only tended to complicate the situation further and heighten tensions." The Saudis, among America's closest friends in the Muslim world, are alarmed at the prospect of reckless U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf region. But Egypt's Anwar Sadat was quick to express concern for Jimmy Carter. Said the Egyptian leader: "It is hard luck, but it should not dishearten the Americans from taking more action to free the hostages." Jerusalem also sent words of sympathy and encouragement. Said Israeli Premier Menachem Begin...
...befall the allies if they pursue Washington's "hostile" course. In a number of Western capitals, in fact, Soviet diplomats were privately promoting possible peace talks between Afghanistan and its immediate neighbors, Pakistan and Iran, and the possible creation of a "security zone" for the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf...
...Welch is also one of three or four people in the world who know anything about Persian paintings of the 16th century. About four years ago, he decided that it would be nice to bring together the works of that little known period. From his desk in the Fogg, Welch composed a letter to the director of the British Library reference division, the caretaker of one of the two great works of the early Safavid period, asking for his cooperation. "I thought they would scream with pain and say 'What do you mean?' " Welch says...
...Wonders of the Age," in its rawest form is a collection of illustrations that accompanied 16th century Iranian epic poems. Although the paintings--the majority of which are drawn from the two books--dazzle at 50 paces, they don't quite have the flash of recent popular exhibitions. The Persian miniatures lack the lustrous, overpowering gold of Tut, the intricate bejeweled splash of the Sythian gold, or the chic of just-released objects of Chinese archeology. If anything, the exhibit's origin--Iran--work against its success. But "Wonders of the Age," like its proprietor, is not your average exhibit...