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Such tit-for-tat behavior benefits neither country. Says a top Reagan Administration official soberly: "We'd like to see this thing fall of its own weight. What Canada is doing is very expensive to itself...
Banisadr, in fact, has told his supporters that he is not in favor of a military coup d'état because he believes the populace must take the initiative in acting against the regime. He envisions a mounting wave of mass demonstrations like those that eventually toppled the Shah...
...monarchy, with full media support and cooperation. Earlier monarchs, like Louis XIV of France, saw themselves as God's viceroys on earth, deducing therefrom the doctrine of the divine right of kings, and claiming not just to represent, but to be the state-"L'état c'st moi!" Today no such claim is feasible; authority cannot be derived from a God who is supposed to have died. So an abstraction, the people, had to serve instead, providing the basis for an ersatz religion, and an even more preposterous claim than Louis XIV's-this time...
Despite the fury of the blast, Radio Iran did not report for three hours that an explosion at party headquarters had caused "considerable damage to life and property." Fearing that a coup d'état might be under way, the government cut communications to the outside world...
...picture Bill Murray, back in eighth grade, before his acne cleared up, sitting in the back row in Social Studies, spitting out gags in a rat-a-tat style calculated to send the teacher home in tears. Now Murray is grown up, and now the whole world is his classroom...