Word: shah
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...impact U.S. decisions can have. American policy in Iran was a product of "confused purposes," he says. While the U.S. helped to improve health and education, it "destroyed the democratic vision," Miller says, adding that Washington did not take advantage of a "number of opportunities" to encouage the Shah to open the political process...
...battle can only increase. So too will the diplomatic challenge for the U.S. To the Administration's credit, policy toward the Philippines is more coherent than that on any other recent foreign challenge of similar magnitude. In contrast to the situation in Iran during the final days of the Shah, U.S. diplomats are in close contact with the opposition. Unlike Central America, the Philippines has created no major divisions between Congress and the White House, nor among the various Executive departments...
...delayed the plans. Robert Maxwell, head of the Mirror Group of newspapers, has been more persuasive. After threatening to shut down his papers, Maxwell announced that the unions had agreed to lay off one-third of his newspaper group's 6,000 staffers. All eyes now are on Eddie Shah, a feisty publisher of newspapers in northern England who plans to launch a national, computer-printed tabloid this spring. By signing a no-strike contract with the electricians' union and skirting other unions, Shah boasts that his expenses will be a small fraction of Fleet Street's. If Shah...
...Philippines could go the way of Iran. Ambassador Bosworth dismisses the possibility, arguing that Filipinos, unlike Iranians, support "change through elections." Also, there is no mass movement in the Philippines that parallels Iran's Fundamentalist Muslim wave. Marcos, analysts say, has only one thing in common with the Shah: a fear that Washington may pull the plug on an old friend. The Reagan Administration has thus far held firm to its strategy of coaxing reforms from Marcos by rewarding steps toward moderation. Given the mounting resistance both on Capitol Hill and in the streets of Manila, however, that course, like...
Some of the most influential foreign-born businessmen in Houston are Iranians, many of whom fled their country in the late 1970s, around the time of the fall of the Shah. They have since flocked to real estate, and are currently constructing developments ranging from housing to shopping centers. Says Ali Ebrahimi, 43, whose company, Ersa Grae, has built five subdivisions in Houston and two more in Nashville: "What I have been able to do with very little money is to attract the confidence of big institutions to back me by putting together projects that work...