Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while to push back. It would have been a lot easier in some ways if we'd been able to lay it all out as we went along. But we've had to live with the realities of an ongoing negotiation; we've had to stay within the parameters of those negotiations. God knows, it's been frustrating for me when I've read some of these stories that are just plain untrue and I haven't been able to come out and say, "Here's what the actual facts...
...University of Oklahoma, for example, about 20 of the 525 Iranian students have gone back. At the University of California at Berkeley, just one out of 156 has returned. Students with relatives who have been forced into exile or executed by the Khomeini government are obviously going to stay put. Others have been getting word from friends or relatives to keep their distance. An electrical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin describes his latest phone conversation with his father, who is still in Iran. "He seems afraid, like when the Shah was in power. He said...
Once a student winds up his studies in America, however, he faces a problem: it is not that easy to stay on. To obtain a permanent visa, students need some skill that is in short supply in the U.S., a requirement few can meet. The State Department is considering granting asylum to the pro-Shah students, who would be in peril if they went home. Others, without this protection, may follow the course of so many foreigners and slip into the shadowy world of illegal aliens. For all the drawbacks of that way of life, many students would doubtless prefer...
...most turbulent nations, no end of violence was in sight. Indeed, at week's end four B.P.R. sympathizers were slain by police and nine members of the group occupied the Venezuelan mission, taking Ambassador Santiago Ochoa and several aides as hostages. Said one of the captors: "We will stay here until the government releases all our imprisoned leaders...
...double on the public and that she must be a close blood relative. The result of this trumpery is that poor William Holden, as the producer, must act far dumber than we know this intelligent actor to be. It is a measure of his reliable skills that we stay with him. We must also believe that Marthe Keller, who plays Fedora in the flashback scenes and her double in the contemporary sequences, has the Garboesque acting skills to match her undeniable beauty, and that requires a much more precarious leap of faith. Finally, because this movie invokes Director Wilder...