Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah dead than I do. Khomeini knows that as long as the Shah is alive and as long as he can continue to portray the U.S. as the "great Satan power," he has a cause around which he can rally his revolutionaries. Were the Shah dead, Khomeini would soon be forced to face the real problems of the country. No Khomeini doesn't want the Shah executed; he needs him alive...
...Shah himself is a political cancer that has spread to the U.S. He should be removed from this country as soon as possible, for the sake of this nation's health and that of the hostages...
...starving Cambodians are pawns of political tactics being played out by a mock government. How long must we all endure watching this horror before the Cambodian leaders realize their "subjects" may soon be nonexistent? Steven P. Patton Springfield...
Happy or not, the crackpots soon unleashed the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the atomic bomb. Ever since, Los Alamos, like Bethlehem in Judea, has been a place difficult to visit in a neutral frame of mind. Los Alamos is part rich, overachieving exurb beset by worldly goods and ills familiar all over the U.S., but raised to the nth power; part lonely company town. But, above all, it is an intellectual hothouse not quite like any other...
...week, the efforts toward achieving a diplomatic solution focused on the U.N. At the private urging of the U.S., Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim asked the Security Council to meet as soon as possible for its first formal debate on the situation in Tehran. The Council met on Tuesday and then adjourned until Saturday, so that Iranian representatives could fly to New York to present their country's position. But then Khomeini balked. He condemned the session as having been "dictated in advance by the U.S.," and Iran's Revolutionary Council voted to boycott the debate. The U.N. went ahead anyway...