Word: shah
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...CERTAIN extent, this and similar terrorist actions have succeeded in dividing America. In 1979, too many critics of President Carter charged that support for the Shah of Iran and lack of respect for religious beliefs in that country had alienated the Moslem faction, percipitating the Irannian hostage crisis. In 1985, critics are charging that unflagging support for Israel has given Middle Eastern religious sects no means save terrorism in their struggle for freedom. These critics often characterize American involvement in the region as motivation for the violence there. Nothing could be further from the truth...
...forget the children whom the Ayatollah Khomeint has sent to die in the battlefields at the hands of the Iraquies? Since we withdrew our support of the former Shah, 500,000 Iranians have perished in a fanactical religious war. We have no part in that war. The hostages were not taken in Iran while the Shah ruled the country; half a million of the Shah's people did not die in one of the least-understood, most bloody wars in modern history. The Moslems there are solely accountable for their own destitution...
...Harvard community. Yet Dershowitz and others maintain the resulting list is largely irrelevant when the committee sits down to pick about 10 recipients from all walks of life. Those critics cite past unpopular recipients as evidence of the arbitrary nature of the system--a favorite example is the Shah of Iran, who got a degree in 1968. The critics also charge that deserving minorities and Jews--like Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis--were denied degrees specifically because of their race or creed...
...very bad man, a reactionary cleric, a towel-headed mullah ("towel-head" for short), a "cruel despot," a new shah...
There have been earlier instances of American support for uprisings against regimes inimical to the U.S., but they were sporadic and a number ended in failure. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Henry Kissinger worked through the Shah of Iran to support Kurdish separatists inside Iraq, but in 1975 the Shah pulled the plug on the Kurds in exchange for Iraqi concessions in a border dispute. When Kissinger sought to back the pro-Western factions in the Angolan civil war, he was thwarted by Congress, which was then in the throes of its post-Viet Nam withdrawal syndrome...