Word: worldlys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah. To make a decision, the people must know the truth, and the press has failed in its mission to seek and spread the truth. It has bowed to special interests. It is helping push us towards a war with Iran that would be disastrous for the whole world...
...door because otherwise you are going to die, and dropped-dead on the floor you will not make a cosmetically fetching corpse. But you stop first and buy a package of mints, half-believing that your exhalation of sweet, clear breath will be sufficient to extinguish the world, or at least Brattle Street...
...Since the Second World War," he explained, "there has been a new military doctrine taught at the Academy in Panama. The young officers are taught that the enemy is within their own people, so weapons are now pointed inward...
...indeed a strange episode when the Shah of Iran, former head of one of the world's most brutal and repressive states, managed to land in the U.S. as a "private citizen." For several days leading newspapers published first page stories detailing the treatment of the Shah's cancer, creating a mood conducive to accepting him on humanitarian grounds. Only a few months earlier the press and the U.S. Senate were raising hell about the execution of the Shah's military chiefs and ex-cronies in Iran. They complained bitterly about the violation of due process of law. But they...
...media had less to say about the 60 per cent of adults left illiterate, and the increasing income gap which made Iran one of the world's most unequal societies. Little was heard about the royal family's financial scandals and their heroin smuggling on a global scale...