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...once was on paper. He would turn over control of the national budget to an appointed Cabinet. A panel of Shi'ite mullahs, his most vociferous critics, would be given the power to veto new laws that were not in conformity with Muslim doctrine. The Shah, however, would retain command of his 280,000-man army, and this was a condition that few Shi'ites, or few other Iranians, for that matter, would now readily accept...
...committee on Medical School admissions policies will recommend that the school retain its controversial minority admissions subcommittee, although it believes the group's authority should be reduced, an ad hoc committee member said yesterday...
...Daniel D. Federman, dean for students and alumni at the Med School, said the ad hoc committee decided at its meeting before vacation to retain the subcommittee, but will recommend that the full admissions committee play a stronger role in selections than in the past...
...Department, is that the Shah is incapable of ending the unrest through military force. Says one U.S. expert: "Even if his army shot 5,000 people and imprisoned another 50,000, the Shah's fate would be sealed. The Shah's best hope, if he wishes to retain any symbolic position of esteem, is to make a dramatic declaration turning over his powers to an interim ruling group of elder statesmen. Otherwise, he faces the slow disintegration of his army and, eventually, his entire country." As of last week, this was one bit of U.S. advice that...
...press, which might be counted on to observe with interest phe nomena like masses of citizens, lined up to collect their pods. The fact is that this film wants to have it both ways: to have a more urbane, more "important" scope than the original, and yet retain some of its inexpensive intimacy as well...