Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader of the assassination squad, Michael Vernon Townley, 36, an American who cooperated with the prosecution in return for a lenient sentence of three years and four months. Townley testified that Letelier's murder had been ordered by General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, chief of the now defunct Chilean secret police, DINA. According to Townley, Contreras had demanded the killing because Letelier, a socialist, was considered a dangerous opponent of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime...
...next day, Khomeini forces attacked the Lavizan barracks in northeastern Tehran, home of the crack Javidan guards, killing the commander and many of his troops. Using acetylene torches, the attackers cut their way through electrically locked doors to free prisoners at Evin, a jail run by the hated SAVAK secret police. There the liberators found electric whips, torture beds and other interrogation devices that justified many of the atrocity charges long leveled at SAVAK. Also attacked was the Shah's principal residence in north Tehran, Niavaran Palace. Dispirited Imperial Guards on duty there capitulated without a fight...
Meanwhile, the new revolutionary government was acting in an arbitrary manner that seemed at variance with the Ayatullah's previously expressed democratic ideals. After hasty−and private−trials, four officials of the former regime, including the head of the Shah's hated SAVAK secret police and three generals, were executed by firing squad on charges of "torture, massacre of people, treason and earthly corruption...
...Bazargan's major problems is what to do with officials identified with the old regime. He and ex-Prime Minister Bakhtiar are longtime friends and colleagues in opposition to the Shah. For a while last week, Bazargan saw to it that Bakhtiar was given a secret refuge in Tehran. But after the British Broadcasting Corporation reported that he was aiding the ousted Prime Minister, Bazargan came under such strong pressure from pro-Khomeini forces that he had to surrender custody of Bakhtiar. Many educated Iranians feel that Bakhtiar was acting out of a sense of patriotic duty in accepting...
...tool to achieve political goals. Indeed, Carter's speedy recognition of the Khomeini-appointed government in Iran followed this very principle. While the U.S. may be uncomfortable with Khomeini's brand of Islamic rule, and should object to such actions as the seizure of the Israeli embassy and the secret trials and executions of pro-Shah officials, the recognition ratifies none of those actions. Instead it marks the awareness of American officials that the U.S. has a political and economic stake in Iran that it will lose entirely if it refused to talk with the Iranian government. And beyond...