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Birdy and Al are boyhood chums. They fall out of the nest at the same time, both managing to land on their feet in a poor neighborhood outside Philadelphia. Al is a Sicilian tough guy, dark and intent on making himself a strongman. He excells as an athlete, making it with the cheerleaders, before getting his face and gut shattered by artillery in World...
...does not exist. There exist various groups, each of which says, 'We caused the revolution, we are the legitimate heirs.' " The resolution may take months or years. After a period of chaos, it becomes easy to imagine, a variation of the Brinton model might start working: a strongman with an armed force imposing law where there is none. When Bakhtiar was named Prime Minister, the mind immediately said, "Ah, Kerensky." Now there seems a possibility of multiple Kerenskys: Bazargan, an Khomeini himself. In the Iranian turbulence, an ominous recollection about Russia arises: its two revolutions of 1917 were...
...shootout in the Kabul Hotel could turn out to be a major test for Afghan Strongman Taraki. Ever since the 61-year-old former leftist journalist seized power last April in a Soviet-backed coup, he has been pestered by mounting tribal and religious insurgency in the rugged eastern Afghan mountains. Now the rightist Muslim rebels, perhaps emboldened by the Shi'ite success in Iran, have shown they could strike close to home. The perverse tragedy of Spike Dubs was that guerrillas fighting a pro-Soviet regime had picked an American to show the world their rebellion...
...Egypt's Arab neighbors: The situation is serious. On my western border, I have [Libyan Strongman Muammar] Gaddafi and the Soviets. In Algeria, whoever is chosen President, I think there will be ten years of instability. [As for Syrian President Hafez Assad], I wonder what would happen to him if he applied what I am applying here: shutting down the concentration camps, bringing in a permanent constitution, a parliamentary system, a multiparty system. The Syrian leaders would not survive one hour...
Khomeini said he would not have any position in the future government but that he would supervise others. Asked if he would be, in effect, the strongman of Iran, he replied, "You may assume...