Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealing with Iranians and their perceptions of reality." Indeed the question of the Shah's admission to the U.S. is a contentious issue among Americans as well as Iranians; some argue that he should have been welcomed from the beginning as a fallen ally, others that as a disgraced tyrant he had no place in this country...
...cynical Essay on "The Dilemma of Dealing with Dictators" [Sept. 24] clearly shows why we are so hated among the Third World nations. Talbott spends all his time telling us which despots we should back and which we should discard, according to our best interests. When a tyrant is no longer useful to us, we should invoke human rights. Only in the last two lines of his Essay does Talbott remember that the people in the distressed countries should have something to say about their own destiny...
...Another tyrant falls...
...Ayatullah Khomeini denounced the U.S. as a "defeated and wounded snake" and termed Washington's relations with Tehran as those of a "tyrant with an innocent, a savaged victim with a plunderer. We don't need America. It is they who need us. They want...
...started flowing in 1967, the year when past and present began to clash in Oman. Rebel groups had already mounted an insurrection to overthrow Sultan Said bin Taimur, then 56, a paranoid tyrant who hoarded gold from oil revenues in the cellar of his ancient castle in Salalah because he believed paper currency was worthless. Under his medieval rule, slavery was sanctioned, and no one could travel abroad without his permission. It was against the law for an Omani to wear spectacles or ride a bicycle. In the whole country there were only two post offices, three miles of asphalt...