Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captured papers reveal a confused U.S. policy about the Shah...
...begins a letter, poignant in retrospect, written by Charge d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen of the U.S. embassy in Tehran to his wife in Bethesda, Md. The deposed Shah of Iran had been admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment less than two weeks earlier, and Laingen was describing an anti-American demonstration outside the embassy. Laingen left the letter on his office desk. Three days later-on Nov. 4, 1979-the embassy was overrun by Iranian militants and America's 444-day hostage ordeal began...
...taking a preppier line with reality; certain voices run to understatement now. Still, a great deal of exaggeration has been built into the culture and, of course, the traditional home of exaggeration; politics. Ronald Reagan so far is not doing his part, however, in 1977, Jimmy Carter described the Shah's Iran as an island of stability." when the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the moon, Richard Nixon declared, "This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation...
...transaction, after all, had first to be agreeable to both sides. A vain Shah wanted Mike Wallace's vast audience to hear his imperious views, though knowing full well that in exchange there would also be tough Wallace questions about secret-police tortures. In the confessional world of check-out counter celebrity journalism, any show-biz figure courting publicity knows that one condition will be a lengthy exploration of his or her marriages and living arrangements. Only the inexperienced expect a journalistic transaction to be risk free. This includes intellectuals so disdainful of pop culture as to be innocent...
...what is evidently a coordinated effort to court the Islamic leadership, Cuba has dispatched Foreign Minister Isidore Malmierca Peoli to Iran eight times since the fall of the ' Shah. In addition, more than two dozen visits have been exchanged between Khomeini aides and high-level Cuban officials. An Iranian parliamentary delegation attended a large meeting in Havana in September with top Cuban leaders, including Fidel Castro. One delegate later told the Iranian parliament how Castro had praised Khomeini and his "anti-imperialist struggle." The Cubans reportedly urged Iran to open an embassy in Havana...