Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Doctrine is the third such attempt since Viet Nam. The first was the Nixon Doctrine: relying on friendly regimes to police their regions. Unfortunately, the jewel in the crown of this theory was the Shah of Iran. Like him, it was retired in 1979 to a small Panamanian island. Next came the Carter Doctrine, declaring a return to unilateral American action, if necessary, in defense of Western interests. That doctrine rested on the emergence of a rapid deployment force. Unfortunately, the force turned out neither rapid nor deployable. It enjoys a vigorous theoretical existence in southern Florida, whence...
...York, he watches a beloved younger brother, "a form of sunlight," dying of cancer and turns away from the unbearable. Morrow also reaches forward, sometimes into the incalculable future, through his two sons. The elder goes to school with the Shah of Iran's son, and the author finds the boy "so like his father . . . all hauteur and vulnerabilty delicately balanced. The Shah and his son, my father and I, Jamie and I: I thought about the tenderness and the capacity for violence in the configurations...
...least part of the answer must lie in the resentment Iranians feel toward this country for its vigorous support of the Shah--the same resentment that led to the seizure of 50 American hostages by a group of militant Iranian students in 1980, with the tacit support of Ayatollah Khomeni's new government...
...Argentine dictators" (since deposed) and of undue friendliness to the apartheid regime in South Africa. Reagan, in effect, said that there were worse things than the survival of rulers who might not respect human rights as much as Americans would like. In Iran, Reagan said, the fall of the Shah, which happened while the Career Administration was in power, had been followed by the rule of a "maniacal fanatic," obviously meaning the Ayatullah Khomeini. In the Philippines now, Reagan continued, the regime of Ferdinand Marcos might not "look good to us from the standpoint right now of democratic rights...
...speed into the bloodstream. Because of this change in the rules, industry experts predict that within a year or two, generic copies of perhaps 150 leading brand-name drugs will appear. They include Valium, a tranquilizer, Diabinese, a pill to control diabetes, and Motrin, a medicine for arthritis. Hemant Shah, a drug-industry specialist with Mabon, Nugent, a Wall Street investment firm, estimates that by 1987, 25% of all prescriptions will be filled with generic drugs, up from...