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...When distorting the body retain the normal volumn [sic] in all parts...
Khomeini suggested that Banisadr could retain the presidency if he apologized for urging the Islamic country to "resist the dictatorship" of Islamic hardliners. "I am sorry that [he and his supporters] have dug their own graves," Khomeini told clergymen massed near his home in north Tehran. "I did not want it to happen this way. I want them now to say that they have been wrong so far in inviting people to revolt." Banisadr's reply, though respectful, fell short of contrition. "However angry you are, my honesty toward you will not be diminished. I think your treatment...
...Rather. After the series opened with a bang over Omaha, illustrating the horrors of even a "limited" use of strategic nuclear weapons, Part 2 examined U.S. and Soviet preparations for tactical nuclear war in Europe and questioned whether the resulting devastation would allow the word victory to retain any meaning. The third segment explored manpower and readiness issues, ranging from the low retention rate of Navy petty officers to the reinstitution of the draft (favored by many training officers although opposed by the Administration); it also made a plea for increased spending on spare parts and realistic training to enhance...
...with the crisis largely past and the Catholic hierarchy growing increasingly critical of the Sandinistas' repressive measures, the bishops asked them to leave their government posts. They stayed on, claiming the country still needed their services, so the bishops came up with a compromise plan. The priests could retain their jobs but downplay their roles as priests. If Rome approved, that...
...right declared sarcastically, "France is not a laboratory for apprentices to try out their contradictory and irreversible experiments." It was the opening salvo of what promises to be a brutal electoral battle, in which Chirac's Gaullists and the remnants of Giscard's U.D.F. will attempt to retain their parliamentary majority and block Mitterrand's reform plans...