Word: returned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discuss John Connally's looking beyond the so-called Jewish vote to the larger issue [Oct. 22]. Big John is quite prepared to play the appeasement game in return for Saudi oil. Since his way of dealing with the larger issues would turn over a huge portion of the Middle East to the Soviet-backed P.L.O., one wonders how large an army he is prepared to commit to the area in order to ensure our oil supply...
...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...
...majority of Iranian students were, and are, bitter opponents of the Shah. But some have grown accustomed to life in the U.S., and many have no wish to return to the uncertain prospects of Khomeini's Iran. Temporarily, at least, the U.S. has become an uncomfortable haven for the students. "People are going to start calling for our heads," worried one Iranian at Columbia. To avoid the ire of Americans, many Iranian students have adopted a low profile, saying little or nothing about recent events in Tehran. "Iranians usually don't take things passively," said Marilyn Thompson, director...
...female cadet that he would like to know her better, then denying to his company executive officer that he had made the statement, which he wrongly thought violated a regulation against "fraternizing" with a plebe. His denial of the incident broke the honor code. If he decides to return to West Point, some cadets say that he will be "silenced," meaning that classmates will not speak...
After his return to Bangkok, Philips spent a day at one of the huge refugee camps. "It was the nearest thing to Dachau I have ever seen," he recalled. During the few hours that Philips was there, an official told him, 546 people in the camp died of starvation or disease...