Word: shah
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...would be difficult to reconcile this pledge with Moscow's ferrying of 6,000 Cuban troops to Angola in 1975 and its shipment of thousands of military "advisers" and enormous quantities of weapons to Ethiopia three years later. During the final months of the Shah's reign in Iran, moreover, Persian-language broadcasts beamed at Iran from inside the U.S.S.R. were inflaming an already tense situation by charging, among other things, that "the dangers facing the Iranian people are coming" from...
Exactly a year ago, as the Shah's regime was crumbling in Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski began warning about instability in the whole "arc of crisis," to the south of the Soviet Union. Last week, with his desk piled a foot high with classified cables on Afghanistan, Brzezinski gave an interview to TIME Correspondents Christopher Ogden and Gregory Wierzynski. Usually ebullient, he was somber and chose his words with exceptional care. Excerpts...
...doctor of law, a career diplomat in the Austrian foreign service, staid, elegant Kurt Waldheim had never confronted such a scene. Several hundred maimed Iranians, all veterans of the rioting that toppled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi a year ago, shook their crutches and artificial limbs at the United Nations Secretary-General as they swarmed around him at a former military officers' club in Tehran. "Waldheim, look at us," shouted one of the wounded demonstrators. "Give the Shah back to us!" One man plucked out his glass eye and shouted: "That's what the Shah did to me!" Another...
Waldheim, his legendary diplomatic poise badly shaken, hugged the child for a few moments while the crippled demonstrators and Waldheim's armed Iranian bodyguards wept. Then he promised emotionally that he would press for a U.N. investigation of atrocities committed under the Shah. Vowed Waldheim: "I shall bring this message of suffering before the United Nations, before the world community. We will inquire into the violation of human rights by the previous regime. We shall certainly do whatever we can to ensure that this mutilation of human beings will never take place again...
Waldheim's promise pleased his hosts. Said an aide to Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh: "This is a significant step in the right direction; this is a cornerstone worth building on." For weeks the Iranian government has sought an international hearing for its grievances against the Shah and the U.S. But by week's end there was no sign that Waldheim had produced the slightest movement toward achieving the main purpose of his trip to Tehran: to start negotiations on the release of the 50 American hostages at the U.S. embassy. The Secretary-General was under instruction...