Word: voorst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years before joining the Ayatullah Khomeini's entourage in Paris last October. In a candid interview last week, he discussed the prospect of an "Irangate" scandal, the fate of his country's F-14s and other topics with TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst. Excerpts...
Clearly, Kissinger relished the attention. "It's nice to be involved without carrying the responsibilities," he told TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who traveled with him "It's a marvelous experience to be a freelancer." Kissinger insisted that he had come to the Middle East only "to get an honorary degree and see some old friends," adding with as much of a straight face as he could muster, "if some of my old friends ask me for my opinion, I will share it with them. I've always been interested in foreign policy...
...Geneva, where representatives of the 13-member nations of OPEC met to raise the price of crude. Reporters in that city were greeted at every turn with airport-style metal detection tests, luggage checks and platoons of Swiss police armed with automatic weapons. Said Tehran-based Correspondent Bruce van Voorst: "The four gorillas who guarded Saudi Sheikh Yamani practically walked in his pockets...
...more of a challenge to Khomeini is the fact that some high-ranking Islamic clerics share this view. The most notable opposition comes from Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, 79, whose popularity in Iran is second only to that of Khomeini himself. In an interview with Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst last week, Sharietmadari implicitly criticized Khomeini-though he never mentioned him by name. Said Sharietmadari: "In politics, all people are equal. I don't think religious edicts should bind citizens to particular political viewpoints. Politics is a matter of opinion. Religious authority may not be called upon to support...
That danger is not so remote. In Tehran, the management of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is in tatters. More important, at the refinery in Abadan and the oilfields of Ahvaz, searing unrest among workers could blow up into crippling strikes. TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst reports...