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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene, Khomeini faces far tougher tasks than rousing the people to fury against an unpopular autocrat. The Ayatullah has announced that he will set up a new revolutionary council for Iran. In so doing he risks a coup by an army whose generals, if not its soldiers, remain loyal to the Shah. He must pick up the numerous strands of opposition, united only in reverence for him and hatred of the monarch, and hold them together long enough to form a functioning government. It is a lot to expect from a spiritual leader wise in Koranic lore but woefully unskilled...
They were not alone. Alarmed by what the State Department called the "uncertain security situation," and fearing a tide of anti-American sentiment, Ambassador William Sullivan asked Americans whose presence was not essential to leave. Despite many Iranians' personal reassurances to foreigners of their friendship, there were two ugly incidents: Major Larry Davis was hit by two bullets as he returned home, and was rushed to the U.S. Army hospital; U.S. Consul David McGaffey was punched and beaten by an irate group of Iranians when he tried to intervene in an incident between an American and a taxi driver...
...with blood, looked shocked as he probed them. "They are trying to kill these people," he said. Fifteen of those who had been wheeled into Pahlavi would die after surgery. One was a man in his 50s, another a 16-year-old boy. There was a young, muscular soldier whose uniform, even in death, was still smartly pressed. Outraged by the massacre, he had wounded his commanding officer and had in turn been fatally shot by his own comrades...
...President but also its Minister of Defense, president of the Council of the Revolution and chief of the National Liberation Front (F.L.N.), the country's only political party. Finding a President to succeed such a pervasive figure presented a delicate problem for the eight-man council, many of whose members aspired to the post. In the end, the council settled on a compromise candidate: Colonel Benjedid Chadli, 49, a little-known officer who seems likely to keep Algeria on the track selected by the departed Boumedienne...
...convinced several farmers to try out their suggestions, and once the success of the programs was demonstrated the rest of the farmers clamored for assistance. Instead of imposing authority from above, the T.V.A. espoused the philosophy of decentralized administration of centralized authority. The T.V.A. is the only federal agency whose main headquarters is in the region it serves, not Washington...