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...TEHERAN, Iran--Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini yesterday rejected a new peace overture from Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar and again demanded Bakhtiar's resignation...
Khomeini followers staged peaceful anti-government demonstrations yesterday in the cities of Ahwaz, Sanandaj and Isfahan, but two protesters were killed in clashes with police in Semnan, 110 miles east of Teheran. An underground group claimed responsibility for the death of another man in the capital city...
Proof of the reactionary role of the United States in world affairs is certainly not needed. This country is essential to the survival of virtually every right-wing dictatorial regime on the face of the earth--from Johannesburg to Teheran. Yet when confronted with the grotesque pieties emanating from the "born-again" White House, it is useful to remember that behind current U.S. policy are the former advocates of genocide in Vietnam...
HARVARD'S DECISION to extend its contract to oversee the design of the Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), that the Iranian government is constructing outside Teheran, is a deplorable one. Along with the $250,000 consulting agreement Harvard signed last spring with the Iranian Educational Radio and Television (IERT), another project sponsored by the Iranian government, this decision once again reveals Harvard's disheartening willingness to cooperate with one of the most repressive regimes in the world today...
HIID's consulting project in Iran has probably received the harshest criticism in the University community. The Iran project, which stationed as many as 12 Harvard advisers in Iran at once, focused on planning the growth of Iran's capital city, Teheran. As the project nears its November termination date, HIID officials admit that Harvard's work in Iran has been less than successful. David C. Cole, associate director of the Institute for Overseas Projects, concedes the Teheran effort "has not been a very effective project. We haven't been able to accomplish very much...