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The Ayatullah will not be on hand to view the latest round in this protracted conflict, but his Finance Minister, Ali Ardalan, will sit down in Geneva on Tuesday with his opposite numbers from the other twelve nations in the OPEC cartel.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Energy Mess | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Viet Nam, which once touted itself as a model of socialist development, has become a troubled pariah. It is only now recovering slowly from the bloody but inconclusive border war with China. Although the repressive regime of Cambodia's Premier, Pol Pot, has been driven out of Phnom Penh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: The Soviets Settle In | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Iran's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, the onetime Houston microbiologist who has emerged as a key figure in the revolutionary government, dismisses the Forghan charge of too much akhoundism in Iran. In an interview with TIME last week (see box), he charged that such accusations are part of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Death of an Ayatullah | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

After the Knesset adjourned, the Israeli Cabinet Committee for Security and Foreign Affairs took up the treaty. It could find no way of breaking the deadlock. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, though exhausted by the protracted negotiations, pleaded that both sides must keep trying. Said he: "We can't let the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace: Risks and Rewards | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

In a sense, the Iranian revolution was an exercise in internal anticolonialism: a convulsive rejection of foreign influence that had, so a wide variety of Iranians thought, robbed their culture of its Islamic values and its natural wealth. In a psychological way, the revolutionaries were obeying the logic of many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Dynamics of Revolution | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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