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...sacked hotels, trashed cinemas, bars, liquor stores and airline offices, which have come to be reviled by both leftists and religious rightists as detested symbols of Western economic domination. This time the troops did nothing. The Shah decided it was time to act. He asked for the resignation of Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami and his ten-week-old government. On Sunday evening, the Shah named General Gholam Reza Azhari, 61, a career officer who has been Chief of Staff of the armed forces since 1971, as Premier and head of a new Cabinet composed of nine military leaders and twelve...
...Tehran University and an expert on constitutional government, Sanjabi looks more like an elderly businessman than an opposition political figure. He was once a disciple of Mohammed Mossadegh, the "fainting fanatic" who nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.; he served in Mossadegh's Cabinet before the Premier was overthrown by the Iranian army (with CIA help...
...other Arab neighbors. In the opinion of U.S. diplomats, the negotiators have actually had an agreement on a linkage formula for at least two weeks, but things seem to come unstuck when the delegations return home to seek the approval of their governments. Two weeks ago, for example, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, who was on a visit to the U.S. and Canada, sent Defense Minister Ezer Weizman back to Jerusalem to secure the Cabinet's acceptance of a compromise proposal...
Nobody was angrier about the Israeli Cabinet's latest action than Jimmy Carter. In his Kansas City news conference late last week, the President declared with accuracy: "There has never been any doubt in my mind, nor President Sadat's, nor Premier Begin's, that one of the premises for the Camp David negotiations was a comprehensive peace settlement." In fact, the President continued, Begin himself had said that he did not seek merely a separate peace treaty. But when the latest draft of the tentative agreement was referred to the governments back home, said Carter, "sometimes the work that...
...Allah, save Jerusalem." Assembled outside Mecca last week for the beginning of the annual hajj (pilgrimage), 1.6 million Muslims prayed in fervent unison for the "liberation" of East Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. A few days earlier, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had given a rousing speech at an election rally in Jerusalem for local candidates of his Likud Party. He declared that a united Jerusalem was as much the capital of Israel as Washington was the capital of the U.S. "The only difference is that Washington has been a capital for 200 years...