Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should the Administration have anticipated Iran's violent reaction to admitting the Shah? With the clarity of hindsight, there is agreement among many experts on this point: a resounding yes. A good deal can be said in Carter's defense, however. Three times the Bazargan government assured the...
No matter what the Iranians say, there is ample historical precedent for the U.S. to give sanctuary to the Shah, even on a temporary basis. Largely because of the vagaries of extradition treaties, which vary from country to country,* even the most hated of deposed rulers has usually managed to...
There is also ample historical precedent, sadly enough, for the Iranian students' assault on the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Though the inviolability of the diplomatic envoy has been a principle practiced since the Middle Ages, embassies and representatives of governments have frequently been targets for protest. In 1829 a...
Whatever their views of the U.S.-Iran dispute, diplomats everywhere agree that Khomeini's support of the assault is a dangerous precedent. "Under the tenets of diplomatic immunity," explains Robert Beers, executive director of the American Foreign Service Association, "anyone accredited to another country as a diplomat is entitled...
The bitterest disputes have turned out to be over hunting and fishing. Two precedent-setting battles are taking place on reservations in Michigan and Minnesota that were visited by TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash. Her report: