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McWhirter, who joined TIME after graduating from Princeton University in 1963, is a seasoned observer of social upheavals. He was stationed in Saigon during the last days of the American involvement in Viet Nam and reported on Iran from the overthrow of the Shah until the arrival of Ayatullah Khomeini. Before moving to Miami to take charge of TIME's new Caribbean bureau last fall, he served for 3½ years as bureau chief in Johannesburg, a base from which he covered the painful birth of Zimbabwe as a nation. While he traced the subtle web of oppression...
Nobody doubts that the Mujahedin possess the stealth, cunning and means to carry out such a lethal operation. They once put under the brass cover of a rice dish a bomb that killed one of the Shah's judges as he pondered the fate of some guerrillas. They have other skills as well...
When the night was young, the King contemplated plunder At dawn, his body, head and crown were all asunder. -Iranian poem describing the assassination of Nader Shah, an 18th century king...
...always very slight." For instance, during the Iran hostage negotiations, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, intending to signal the belief that U.S.-Iran problems could be resolved, spoke of restoring "normal" diplomatic relations. Iran mistakenly took that to mean a return to things as they were under the despised Shah. Says Fisher: "Sending diplomatic signals is like sending smoke signals in a high wind...
...violence continued, the mullahs had other problems on their hands. The economy is a disaster. Inflation is running at 60% for consumer goods. Lamb now costs four times what it did under the Shah; a cake of soap sells for $2. Nearly one-third of the nation's labor force of 12 million is unemployed. Some 1.5 million refugees from Afghanistan have crowded into the country, further straining the economy. More than a million educated Iranians have fled since the Islamic revolution. Though Iran's annual income from oil exports is about $11.5 billion, the war with Iraq...