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Kissinger concedes that he then made telephone calls to "three senior officials" and paid two personal visits to Vance to argue that a U.S. visa should be granted the Shah. He expressed that view volubly in private conversations with many people, including journalists. He said that the last of his direct pleas was made in July. He and Rockefeller then sought to find asylum elsewhere for the Shah. Rockefeller found a temporary residence in the Bahamas, and Kissinger persuaded the government of Mexico to admit the Shah on a tourist visa...
...wave of anti-American violence continued to sweep through the Muslim world. Two weeks ago, there were mob attacks on American outposts from Turkey to Bangladesh and the burning of the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. Last week there were more demonstrations, in Thailand, the Philippines and Kuwait; on Sunday, 2,000 rioting Libyans assaulted the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, but there were no American casualties...
Mohammed al-Quraishi's eyes burned with ambition. He was 26 and for six months he had studied theology in Mecca; he said that the Islamic revolt in Iran heralded a new dawn. Two weeks ago, he and his followers seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. It is Islam's holiest of holy places, since it contains the Kaba, a cube-shaped structure that is believed to have been built by Abraham in God's honor. Last week the siege was lifted after eight days of fighting; but the assault had shaken the Islamic world and rocked...
Annoyed by the growing G.O.P. challenge, state Democrats thought they had found a way to eliminate it. In 1975 they changed the election law so that candidates of both parties would all enter a single primary. They figured that the two top vote getters would invariably be Democrats, thus eliminating the problem of having anyone face a Republican in the runoff. They figured wrong. In the October primary, Treen outdistanced his adversaries, and will face Democrat Louis Lambert, 38, in the runoff...
...revenge on Daley, the mayor has been dropping his allies from the city payroll almost as fast as she can locate them. A score of Daley's precinct captains and city employees have been fired or demoted. The split widened two weeks ago when Daley stunned Chicago pols by announcing that he would run for Cook County state's attorney, potentially the second most powerful political post in the city. Taken by surprise, Byrne scrambled to find someone to run against him. Turned down by her first two choices, who were understandably loath to get caught...