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Using the student militants as a sort of Muslim Red Guard, Khomeini unleashed a campaign to silence critics of his strict theocracy. The students produced documents, purportedly from embassy files, indicating that Ambassador to Sweden Abbas Amir Entezan had advised the U.S. on ways of mending relations with the revolutionary government. One document described him as "actively interested in maintaining contacts with the United States and sincerely trying to mend bilateral relations between Iran and the United States." Summoned to Tehran, supposedly for consultations, Entezam was arrested at the airport on charges of disloyalty. Meanwhile, the Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini...
...well aware that the survival of the cartel was now in question. Said he, trying to put the best face on his defeat: "There will definitely be a [global] recession. We will notice a sharp drop in the spot market. Then there will be some sort of unification of price levels among OPEC members...
...painter Edgar Degas once remarked, that are indistinguishable from panic. So it seems with the present boom in the art market. For the past 15 years or so, collectors, dealers, auction houses and their willing accomplices, journalists, have been moved to pleasure, then wonder, and now to a sort of popeyed awe at the upward movement of art prices. If art was once expected to provoke un nouveau frisson, a new kind of shudder, its present function is to become a new type of bullion. Thus, we are told by art industry flacks, people now respect art. They flock...
...used for harvesting; since they leave no small limbs to rot and replenish the forest, the practice can amount to mining the thin topsoil. "In 50 years," says one observer, "New England could look like Lebanon." President Nick Muller of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has another sort of woodburning in mind. He wants to build a $1.75 million central heating plant fueled by sawdust from nearby sawmills. Sawdust is cheap, burns cleanly and has much heating power. Muller, a historian, is thankful that he studied engineering for a time since he has had to transform himself into...
...Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus. "Karma," writes Mehta, "is now felt as a sort of vibration and Krishna is a doe-eyed pinup...