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...fact, we understand America well. We know that we can resist it and defend our honor. We have proved that we can resist its great injustice?harboring the Shah. We shall overpower America. We shall defeat it in the whole region. The [departure of the] Shah from the U.S. will not solve the problem. An international organization should make serious efforts to convince the U.S. to extradite the Shah to Iran. This organization should return all the wealth the Shah has plundered to its rightful owners?the people of Iran. Such an organization should also try all dictators. We will...
...been replaced. It was possible that he might be forced back into the leadership by a draft for the sake of the election; if not, Canadians asked themselves, who would become Prime Minister if the Liberals won? In the swirl of uncertainties, many voters could not resist a swelling mood of a plague-on-both-your-houses. Growled the Ottawa Journal: "Stupidity, intellectual dishonesty and a lust for power conspired to force an election which the people of Canada assuredly do not want...
Nixon can never resist a chance to get in a lick at the press. About the Shah's fallen reputation, Nixon is dead right, but not simply because Khomeini manipulated the press: the Ayatullah has been able to take noisy advantage of a bizarre news brownout, a month of "self-restraint" unparalleled in American life. Johnny Carson confesses on TV that he is having a harder time with his opening monologues; Art Buchwald, who gets most of his humor columns out of topical events, hasn't done a single column about Iran. Even presidential candidates have been biting...
...moments of investigation, satisfied himself of the difference and moved on to more pressing areas of moral inquiry. To individuals with a profound need for moralistic posturing--or simply irritated with the pretensions that all intellectual fashions acquire--the temptation to distort is too great to resist or to admit. To this must be added the observation that Marxism has always had an instinctive distrust of anything involving--however peripherally-- genetics, as the tragic history of Lysenkoism and the Stalinist murder of geneticists attest...
Sentiments for war are running high on both sides. We must resist these tendencies because the costs to everyone are too high. We appeal to your integrity and intelligence to raise your voices against the presence of a criminal of monstrous proportions in this country, if not for sympathy for the Iranian people for the values you aspire to yourselves...