Word: retains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...Ball report's conclusions are shared by most Middle East experts at the State Department. As one Middle East specialist describes it, the view is that "the longer the chaos continues, the more difficult the solution, and the longer the Shah waits, the fewer the options he will retain...
...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...
Crowds carried placards demanding an end to U.S. support of the shah in his 11-month old struggle to retain control of the country. "Criminal Americans Go Home" and "Iran Will Become Another Vietnam" the placards read...