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...reports gradually confirmed details of the U.S. operation, some governments responded with anger, some with sympathy. Syria's state-run Damascus Radio denounced the mission as "an aggressive act of piracy." India's Ministry of External Affairs said that it could not condone "military adventurism of the type inherent in the attempt of the U.S." It complained that the raid had "only tended to complicate the situation further and heighten tensions." The Saudis, among America's closest friends in the Muslim world, are alarmed at the prospect of reckless U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf region...
...pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from large estates, many held by absentee landowners; the confiscated properties would be turned into state-run rural cooperatives. At the same time, a series of decrees nationalized the banking system, giving the state 51% interest in each of the ten banks and laying down the guidelines for eventual employee ownership of minority shares...
...been held up until Turkey gave proof of its fiscal responsibility. The unanswered question is whether Demirel's measures will really help in the long run. OPEC price hikes will soon add around $100 million more to the country's monthly fuel bill of $150 million. State-run factories will be forced to choose between raising prices sky high or laying off thousands of workers-at a time when unemployment is already running at 20%. The discontent of the jobless can only add to the tensions that have made political violence a way of life with an average...
DIED. Celia Sanchez, 57, the zealous Communist who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra during the Cuban Revolution and later became his nearly constant companion and Cuba's most powerful woman; of what the state-run radio called a "painful illness"; in Havana...
...support, the student militants turned their fire on Ghotbzadeh. In Communique 75, they accused him of "talking too much." Said the militants: "The Iranian nation should be ashamed to speak more than necessary to an enemy, particularly a filthy one like America." To hasten his fall from grace, the state-run radio, which until three weeks ago was directed by Ghotbzadeh, praised the students' criticism of him and declared: "There is no room for diplomatic games in our revolution." It was clear warning that Ghotbzadeh may face the same fate as his predecessor, Abolhassan Banisadr, who was fired...