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...year was 1971. Yet even then, to those who looked beyond the grandeur, there were signs that all was not well in the Shah's realm. The party grounds were sealed with barbed wire; troops armed with submachine guns stood guard. The University of Tehran was closed to forestall embarrassing signs of protest. By 1978, resentment against the imperial arrogance of Persepolis had ignited a revolution that spread from mosques to merchants to the remotest villages of the country. When Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died in a Cairo hospital last week at the age of 60 of lymphatic cancer complicated...
Corruption and repression in the realm...
...Reagan truly to represent the country in the office of the presidency, he must straddle some issues. If he is elected on the basis of his present stances--the ones enunciated repeatedly here, strikingly in the realm of economic policy and anti-Soviet policy--he may wind up tied to programs that would severely hinder any sort of progress toward resolving long-term dilemmas. Of course, much of the rhetoric spouted this week is bluster, and the delegate selection process tends naturally to send loyal hardliners as representatives to a convention. But beneath the bluster must be some indication that...
...personally sacred realm used to enclose a great deal that went on at home and at large; there were reasons for confidentiality between doctor and patient. But the variety of intimate matters now bandied about is without apparent limits. On talk shows like Phil Donahue's, ordinary people regularly recount stories of emotional disturbance, marital discord, incest. Men chat about their vasectomies, women about their hysterectomies. The spectacle of Lyndon B. Johnson flashing his surgical scar to the world, so vulgar at the time, seems comparatively genteel in retrospect...
...unity with the other summit participants on political, economic and energy issues. Said Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita: "Our seven nations are seven passengers in the same gondola." More prosaically, a top Carter aide summed up: "Nobody is trying to claim we got everything we wanted. But in the realm of the possible, things worked out pretty damn well...