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...Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran in 1979, Banisadr seemed to have the Ayatullah's full confidence. Though Banisadr was elected President with 75% of the vote in 1980, and soon earned the support of the army as its commander in chief, he was ultimately unable to withstand the fundamentalists' hostility and Khomeini's divide-and-rule tactics, which turned Iranian politics into a welter of warring factions. Banisadr lost more favor when he seemed too eager to work out a deal with the U.S. for the release of the embassy hostages. Late last week, from...
Despite mounting domestic unrest, however, South Africa is still far more stable than pre-Zimbabwe Rhodesia, where blacks succeeded in establishing a government in 1980. The country is also far better equipped to withstand international pressure intended to force it to change...
...going to regular businessmen, not someone who is a bodyguard or in law enforcement." In 1978 the company turned a new Cadillac into a James Bond car for the Shah of Iran, adding a bomb sniffer, ducts that sprayed tear gas, machine-gun mounts and enough armor plate to withstand a grenade or a land mine. After he lost the Peacock Throne, the Shah refused title to the car, forfeiting a $50,000 deposit...
...dairy farmers I've seen," he said. "They told me, 'You did the right thing. We know we all have to make sacrifices.' " That does not mean, however, that leaders of local programs slated for heavy cuts are happy. "They tell me they can withstand reasonable cuts," noted Barnard. "But they ask me to please save their programs...
...accepted convention in American performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for the singers to imitate a British accent. The convention is not a sacrosant one: as Broadway's current production of The Pirates of Penzance with Linda Ronstadt and a street gang of pirates testifies, the operettas can withstand unconventional approaches...