Word: voorst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor of his small apartment in Tehran and offered a partisan assessment of the current crisis: His fervent arguments illustrate the gulf between the Iranian version of the conflict and the view of it held by the outside world. As he talked with TIME's Bruce van Voorst, Bahonar fingered his horn-rimmed glasses like modern worry beads...
...more difficult role in the cover story than Middle East Correspondent Bruce van Voorst in Tehran...
...Voorst was TIME's bureau chief in Tehran earlier this year, and so he was returning to familiar territory when he rushed to Tehran from Beirut immediately on hearing of the capture of the hostages. Among the problems he faced on his return: unruly mobs, intermittent breaks in telephone and telex communications, and a power blackout that forced him to type one long report by flashlight. Arriving in Iran under extraordinary conditions, however, is not new for Van Voorst: nine months ago he was on the same plane with the Ayatullah Khomeini on his triumphal return from exile outside...
...open new economic and diplomatic relations with the West. They also suggest that Saddam Hussein, 42, who replaced ailing Ahmed Hassan al Bakr, 65, as President last July, is determined to forge a more active, and possibly less radical, foreign policy for his country. TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst reports from Baghdad...
...total population of 36 million) have long been agitating for more autonomy; since the revolution their demands have accelerated, causing friction with the Tehran government and occasional bloody clashes with its forces, most recently in the town of Marivan. TIME's Tehran bureau chief, Bruce van Voorst, visited Kurdistan and filed this report...