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...distant and aloof Kansas Republican Governor Robert Bennett, never really popular in his state, fell victim to the widespread voter unrest. He was upset by Democrat John Carlin, 38, speaker of the state's house of representatives. Wisconsin's image as one of the more liberal states was transformed by Republican Lee Sherman Dreyfus, 52, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, who was seeking office for the first time. He unseated Acting Governor Martin Schreiber, 39, a career politician. Yet Dreyfus, who describes himself as a maverick in a populist mold, saw no ideological portent...
...replacement by a democratically elected Islamic republic, which Khomeini professes no interest in heading. He wants to reduce Western influence in Iran. The appointment of the new military government, he told TIME Paris Correspondent Sandy Burton last week, "will not change anything. Rather, it will intensify the unrest and strikes ... The goal of our people's struggle is to wipe out the root and the fundamental cause of all the corruption and crimes, which is the Shah and the monarchy...
...question whether Sharif-Emami's government could continue because it does not have the support or participation of opposition members. Last week the Shah reportedly consulted with Ali Amini, 71, an outspoken critic of his policies in the past who served as Premier during a similar period of unrest in 1961-62. Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, a loose alignment that includes a broad spectrum of political groups ranging from conservative to leftist, flew to Paris to talk with Ayatullah Khomeini, the dissident mullah who is spiritual leader of Iran's 34 million...
...doubt that rank-and-file troops would support their commanders if ordered to attack protesters with bullets and bayonets. Moreover, "shooting Iran into political silence," as one Tehran newspaper put it, would probably fail. Many Western experts believe that the Shah's only hope of calming the unrest is to step aside in favor...
...consolation to the West is that Moscow, if Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is to be believed, prefers a stable Iran on its southern border. "You can't say that the Soviet hand isn't there," said a State Department aide about the latest unrest, "but we have no evidence. This isn't Afghanistan [where a military coup brought a pro-Moscow regime to power]. They don't want to contest us on this issue." The Russians, in fact, were suffering more immediately from the oilworkers' strike than the West was. While the Shah...