Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government of Shahpour Bakhtiar, who had been appointed Prime Minister by the Shah. Following a bloody weekend of fighting between units of the Imperial Guard and pro-Khomeini airmen and armed civilians at Doshan Tappeh airbase in eastern Tehran, the army supreme command abruptly announced that it would withdraw its troops and give "full support to the wishes of the people." The army had been Bakhtiar's last prop; he resigned, as did the members of parliament...
...President Carter has limited himself to exhortations of nonaggression, urging the Chinese to withdraw from Vietnam and Vietnam to withdraw from Cambodia. There is not much else he can do. The U.S., no stranger to amoral powerplays in Vietnam, has little or no leverage left in Southeast Asia...
...semester, he has an unsatisfactory record and his case is discussed at a meeting of the ad board. Roughly half of those students who receive unsatisfactory records are placed on probation for a semester. Students who fail two or more are usually asked to withdraw. Failure of a course in two successive semesters usually results in either probation or withdrawal. Approximately half of those students placed on probation are restricted from participating in any extracurricular activities...
...sure enough, at Harvard, probation is what they give you before they ask you to withdraw. Further, it is difficult for any student--especially a freshman--to look upon a board of stodgy administrators who experience Harvard behind formica desks as paternal, caring figures...
...resume a life of teaching and prayer. It seems improbable that he would try to become a kind of Archbishop Makarios of Iran, directly holding the reins of power. Khomeini believes that Iran should become a parliamentary democracy, with several political parties. But he is unlikely to withdraw to shadows and silence until Iran adopts a new constitution and the threat of civil war is removed...