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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proud of Senator Kennedy for having the guts to denounce the Shah as a tyrant. He has again proved to me that we do have one great leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...workers and collective farmers, some of whom would double their production in his honor. But since the dictator's death in 1953, and especially since Nikita Khrushchev's famed destalinization speech three years later, few Soviet citizens have felt the urge to celebrate the birth of a tyrant whose reign of mass police terror cost the country millions of lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Stalin's 100th | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...sympathy goes to the hostages and to the Iranians who will suffer from prejudice here. But the Iranians I pity the most are the ones who will realize too late that there is nothing they can do to get that tyrant Khomeini out of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1979 | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...situation has now arisen in the relations between the governments of Iran and the United States of America, in which both parties protest that their rights have been flagrantly violated. The one cites the right of immunity for its diplomats abroad' the other its rights to try an exiled tyrant. To clarify this situation, we believe it of crucial importance to refer to history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Iran Crisis: Second Look | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...Iranian national honor and the Islamic revolution by giving the deposed Shah a visa. The ex-dictator represents all the pain, torture, humiliation, deprivation and repression suffered for decades by our nation. And just at a time when Iranians believed Washington at least tacitly recognized this fact, the ex-tyrant triumphantly enters New York-a malicious, outrageous, insupportable insult to all the blood that was spilled for the cause of liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Mullah's View: No Deal, Sir | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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