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...Thus I decided to shoulder the thankless task of resolving the hostage problem for them. I expressed my unqualified opposition to the idea of trying the U.S. hostages. Such trials, from any angle you look at them, are against our interest. Our main demand-the extradition of the criminal Shah to Iran -has become irrelevant. But obviously we cannot let the hostages go without first having the U.S. give us back what it has taken from us. There are many wrongs that have to be righted...
...Shah's Death
...Shah's end may have been "far from princely" [Aug. 4], but the last chapter will be best remembered for the noble gesture of Sadat, who has set an example for all the world...
Would the Shah have died any sooner if he had gone home and faced the music...
...person; he has no popular following and little apparent political savvy. Critics say that he is "headstrong" only when standing on firm ground. Arrested for distributing antigovernment literature in 1974, Raja'i is said by fellow inmates to have begged for mercy when tortured by SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. "His behavior at the time was certainly not heroic," notes one former prisoner. Students in his math classes at the Kamal Islamic high school in Tehran describe Raja'i as "inflexible" and "humorless," qualities that he appears to have brought with him into political life...