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...Middle East in which Washington has no influence with either side-and, indeed, is being blamed by both parties for fomenting the conflict. Iran, of course, is still holding 52 American hostages, and it regards the U.S., in the words of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, as "the great Satan." Iraq is a Soviet client whose military forces were trained and equipped by the U.S.S.R.; though Iraq has hinted that it would like to establish ties with the U.S. too, the State Department has no contacts with Iraqis of Cabinet rank. It was to Moscow, not Washington, that officials of both combatants...
Ramos grew up watching the South Bronx being burned alive, building by building, block by block. When he turned eleven, he was already a man. As initiation to a street gang called the Sons of Satan, he had to run a bloody, 20-yd. gauntlet of flaying fists. "I stole, beat up on people, hit on my teachers," Ramos confesses, "just to prove I was bad and not a punk." He had seen a dozen men shot or stabbed over drug deals and street-corner dice games. He had faced a man with a revolver who was threatening to blow...
...play opens with Zuss and Nickles, actors in a preternatural traveling circus who sell balloons and peanuts between performances. Casting themselves as God and Satan, the two plan a dramatization of the Book of Job, conjuring up their own world right there in the circus tent and using an unsuspecting J.B. in the role of the lucky man who has everything he cherishes--family, money, health, happiness--destroyed as a test of his faith in God's goodness. From a high platform, the two look down on J.B. and his exuberant household and plot the tragedies that will befall...
...President of the U.S. had just imposed historic diplomatic and economic sanctions on Iran, including the expulsion of 35 Iranian diplomats, and had asked American allies to join in isolating Khomeini's government. But in turbulent Iran, where the U.S. and its President are routinely denounced as "Satan," surrealism reigns, and any clash with Americans has become a cause for jubilation. All week long, Muslim leaders whipped up an emotional frenzy against the U.S., reaching an even higher pitch after border clashes occurred with Iraq. "The U.S. hand has come out of Iraq's sleeves," ranted Khomeini, blaming...
...being burned--it was Jimmy Carter being burned in effigy, it was the face of Jimmy Carter being taunted and torched and hung, and the crowds were chanting "Death to Jimmy Carter" and "Death to America," and it was the Ayatollah who said, "Reject this--Carter is the great Satan," or whatever. So he became out of all of this the personification of the country in a time of trouble. He could have taken that moment and reached beyond the day-to-day political apparatus...