Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europeans are scared to join the U.S. [April 28] because we are asked to follow a U.S. President who dines with a rich Shah and kicks an ill ex-Shah around, who kisses the Soviet party boss on both cheeks, knowing that millions of Europeans are held in slavery by that man, and who now wants us to "punish" the U.S.S.R. because it's election time...
...hostages, Embassy Employee Ronald Morris, 47: "We were on first-name terms, swapping cigarettes and even joking eased." in moments when the tension But on Sunday, the gunmen began to taunt their Iranian hostages by scrawling slogans on the embassy walls: DEATH TO KHOMEINI and DOWN WITH THE NEW SHAH. This particularly enraged the embassy's assistant press attache, Abbas Lavasani, 29, who argued with his captors and defended Khomeini's Islamic revolution. At one point, one of the gunmen was ready to shoot Lavasani but was dissuaded by another hostage, British Police Constable Trevor Lock...
...Lean Years, Barnet writes that the same situation led to Carter's down-the-wire support of the deadweight Shah of Iran in 1978. In the midst of Tehran riots, the director of the National Foreign Estimate of the CIA, Robert Bowie, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to give an optimistic report...
Revenge is especially dangerous when it lumbers around shaggily between two cultures-like those of Iran and the U.S. - that profoundly misunderstand each other, that in some ways inhabit different centuries. The Iranians consider that they are exacting revenge for the years of America's association with the Shah. Thus grievances and countergrievances accumulate in some evolutionary rhythm, the way that grazing animals over the millenniums developed better teeth and, simultaneously, nutritional plants evolved harder thorns...
...years ago, when the war in Indochina served as a stark, dramatic reminder of the way our country is run. Today, there is less discussion, less dissent--but not because the system has changed. American imperialism of the sort exemplified by the invasion of Cambodia and the shah of Iran continues around the world. At home, our nation's leaders cut social spending and try to force a recession while they continue to pay billions for missiles. Our government backs nuclear power, allows schools to deteriorate and sells elections to the highest bidder--in short it serves the twisted, vested...