Word: american
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...home. In Washington, U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green directed the Administration to stop its crackdown on Iranians with student visas who are illegally in the U.S. She ruled that the Government had subjected the Iranians to a "discriminatory, 30-day roundup that violates the fundamental principles of American fairness." Since Nov. 13, immigration officials had interviewed 50,437 Iranians, found that 6,042 were in the U.S. illegally and expelled 56 of them. Government lawyers won a temporary stay of the ruling while it is appealed...
...officials had been driven from Tabriz. Khomeini has been uncertain how to fight back. At first, he tried words. In a rhetorical broadside, he castigated the rebels as "mere heathens, foreign-led agents whose dossiers are in our hands." He tried to rally the Azerbaijanis to his anti-American crusade. Said he: "Now that we are at war with the great Satan, any gesture or utterance aimed at weakening the government is apostasy...
Without power there is no policy. American survival and good works have been and are rooted in that principle, which is occasionally ignored but never escaped. The debate in Washington now centers on power-principally military power, but also the power that is real, contrived or imagined in the presidential process...
...Those 23 warships off the Persian Gulf, cradling more firepower than all our vessels of World War II, seem to have sunk out of sight. The American hostages are still being held in Iran. The allies continue to run around in circles instead of bolstering our position. Outrages like the ambush killing of four Americans by Turkish leftists in Istanbul last week are threatening to become commonplace. Molasses in December...
Useful thoughts come from the nation's top kibitzer on Washington's K Street, Henry Kissinger. 1) the American President still has more discretionary power in the short run than any other man in the world, and 2) maintaining political authority through which the power is brought to bear is far more difficult over the extended course...