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Meanwhile, the government is displaying increasing nervousness. Three correspondents of the worldwide news agency Reuters were expelled and their bureau branded "a center of conspiracy against the Islamic revolution," leaving the Italian and French as the only major Western news agencies in Iran. The mullahs also remain wary of Banisadr...
The results amounted to a sweeping purge of the party's middle-level leadership. The eleven-man Politburo emerged from the voting largely intact, losing two full members and two alternates. Far heavier losses were sustained by the Central Committee, which is still dominated by holdovers from the regime...
The Central Committee meeting closed with a pledge to address the Soviets' key concerns. While affirming the commitment to the "process of renewal," the committee's final resolution promised a "re-evaluation of journalistic cadres" -signaling a probable purge of journalists -and called for the forces of public...
In the early '60s, only 5.5% of the county's 5,000 eligible blacks were registered to vote. Meanwhile, because of a failure to purge voting lists, there were more white registered voters than there were white adults in the county. But then came the Voting Rights Act...
Because of last spring's furor, Perkins says, his first task as director was to convince the institute's "key people" to stay on. How much discontent there was, he won't say--"Let's just say that everybody's reasonably happy now, and no one did leave. . . I certainly...