Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However the embassy affair ends, it is a sharp reminder of the degree to which the traditional rules of international conduct can no longer be taken for granted...
Though the Ayatullah Khomeini's precise role in the embassy affair was not known, it was obvious that the student occupiers looked to him for leadership. Because Khomeini demanded that the British government surrender the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, the students on Monday evening briefly occupied the British embassy in Tehran. They left after only six hours, presumably because they had learned what their Imam had not: that Bakhtiar is in exile not in Britain but in France, which also gave asylum to Khomeini before his triumphal return to Iran in February...
...adopt a policy of coolness and flexibility. Toward that end, the White House asked both Congressmen and presidential hopefuls to refrain from inflaming the situation. For the most part the candidates agreed. Early in the week, Republicans Ronald Reagan and John Connally criticized the Administration's handling of the affair, only to draw a rebuke from a third G.O.P. contender, Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. After a briefing session for congressional leaders at the White House, Democratic Senator Scoop Jackson of Washington declared: "Restraint is the order of the day." Teddy Kennedy was one who broke ranks; he criticized...
...last, the challenge was formally issued. In Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, where Samuel Adams once preached revolt against the ruling British, Ted Kennedy last week finally proclaimed his insurgency. It was, inevitably, a family affair. When Rose Kennedy arrived to watch the third of her sons' campaigns begin, she received a thunderous ovation from some 400 relatives and friends. Also attending were the widows of Ted's two murdered brothers: Jacqueline Onassis and Ethel Kennedy...
...French Atlantic Affair, Nov. 15,16,18, ABC, 9p.m. E.S.T...