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...afraid of a backlash against the Administration for making concessions to Iran. That danger grew Sunday when it became clear that the Iranians were going to prolong the suspense and the agony for the U.S. ? and thus almost inevitably intensify the impression worldwide that the U.S. was paying ransom to kidnapers...
...collage. His films assemble scraps of dust-jacket wisdom, revolutionary rhetoric, sexual aggression, the music and the language of the streets, images from books, TV, magazines and billboards, forming a mosaic that melds the graphic wit of a Braque guitar with the anarchic intensity of a kidnaper's ransom note. In Every Man for Himself, the first Godard film to be distributed in the U.S. since 1972, he has tried to make an accessible movie while still speaking in his steely, ironic voice. But Godard will not be compromised. The collagist keeps us at a distance. The movie screen...
...smokescreen to cover the fact that its forces were making limited progress toward their objectives. Baghdad's battle plan apparently called for the seizure of key cities in Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province, which has a large Arab minority. The cities would have been held for ransom against a settlement that would give Iraq control of the Shatt al Arab waterway, which it reluctantly agreed to share with the Shah of Iran in 1975. One of Baghdad's ultimate political goals is to overthrow the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has urged Iraq...
...waters, nature has left vast underground pools of oil controlled today by Iran and seven Arab states. With a total estimated population of 24 million and a daily oil production of 17 million bbl., the gulf states alone have the power to hold the industrial world for ransom...
Then it repeated Tehran's basic demand for the release of the hostages: essentially, a negotiated ransom. "Gentlemen," said the letter, "you can take positive steps in resolving the hostage crisis. You can place on your urgent agenda the assessment of the damages sustained by Iran because of U.S. policies and Iran's legitimate demands, especially the return of the assets of the Shah and his relatives. It is in this way that the path to the settlement of the crisis will be opened...