Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them to vote, vote, vote. I went to one area five days after the guerrillas had killed five people only two miles away. A woman said, "They killed our people, they are telling us not to vote, but we are going to vote." That is the spirit that is triumphant...
Those differences have been building since last year, when huge street rallies organized by Taleghani led to the Shah's abdication and eventually to Khomeini's triumphant return from his exile in Paris. In contrast to the uncompromising Khomeini, Taleghani is, by Iranian standards, a liberal who maintains connections with leftist organizations that Khomeini has denounced as "enemies" of the Islamic revolution. Last month, for example, Taleghani had publicly attacked the referendum that created Iran's Islamic republic, on the ground that it did not really offer voters any choice. Because of the widespread popularity and trust...
...Friday, Sadat and Begin had made their triumphant visits to Congress and gone home to face the harsh realities of the treaty. Carter was left to struggle with inflation, energy and the Pennsylvania nuclear accident. He was tired but deeply satisfied, and for a few minutes he paused in the Oval Office to think back over what had happened and to look ahead...
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...