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Arafat's triumphant welcome in Tehran was something of a shock, but it is no great surprise that the P.L.O. and the new Iranian government should be the best of friends. Ever since the early 1970s, Palestinian groups have been giving aid, training and arms to Iranian dissidents. It was the Shah of Iran who sold oil to the Israelis, who used it to power the tanks and planes that were fighting the Palestinians. Thus the Iranian enemies of the Shah became the Palestinians' natural allies. A number of them have fought with the guerrillas in southern Lebanon...
...Ayatullah bears much of the blame for the paralysis. From his place of exile near Paris last fall, he ordered his countrymen to go on strike against the Shah, and they obeyed. Last week Khomeini, his revolution triumphant, ordered Iranians to go back to work, and most were eager to do so. On Saturday the bazaar reopened at long last, and streets were clogged with traffic. More important, workers in the oil fields were apparently heading back to their jobs...
...plays in effect present contrasting visions of two trapped women: one wants to write, and one is forced to. I Can Feel the Air is a tale of a triumphant soul whereas The Yellow Wallpaper chronicles the inexorable crushing of a human spirit...
Behind him, Teng left a state of near euphoria among many political and business leaders, excited about the "parallel interests" of China and the U.S. that his triumphant tour seemed to have illuminated. But some Sinologists, including Harvard's John Fairbanks, dean of U.S. China watchers, were already warning that this euphoria might prove dangerous...
...idea, of course, was to give the waiting millions back home an absolutely glowing account of Teng's triumphant journey. Accordingly, no inconvenient details or unpleasant incidents were to be photographed or written about. Violent protests by ultraradical Maoists in Washington's Lafayette Park and demonstrations by Taiwanese loyalists in Atlanta went unreported. With rigid discipline, the Chinese press portrayed Teng's host country as America the beautiful, a land apparently without poverty, blessedly free of political or racial strife, a perfect industrial model for the new China. As filler, Chinese TV stations even dipped into footage...