Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Raymond T. Miller, an associate at the Russian Research Center, said last month that if the Soviets were interested in gaining control of Yugoslavia by invasion, they would have their satellite Bulgaria provoke a border dispute and then intervene. But he added that "this is not a real possibility...
...early April Carter had lost patience with the frustrating process of trying to deal with Iran's changing leadership and the erratic Khomeini. He thought he had reached agreement for the Iran government to take control of the hostages from the more zealous militants, but Khomeini squelched any deal. As political pressure built up in the U.S. for more forceful action, Carter embarked on a very risky two-track course. Publicly, he pressured the Western European nations to join the U.S. in breaking diplomatic ties with Iran and in cutting off most trade, hinting none too subtly that he would...
...some experts familiar with such operations. They speculated that some kind of help on the ground must have been anticipated?either from Iranians friendly to the U.S. or American agents who had been sent into the country secretly in advance. Said one Israeli military specialist: "You don't gain control over the embassy with 90 men, and you don't do it with eight helicopters." A respected Egyptian magazine called October said that 40 Iranians trained in the U.S. had taken part in the raid. The Administration had no comment to make on the report...
...must give up the hope of re-election." Khomeini implied that only if the U.S. tried another such rescue mission would the hostages be punished. Said he: "I warn Carter that should he resort to such foolish things, then it would be impossible for us and the government to control these Muslim, combative and heroic youth who are guarding the spies in the spy nest, that he would be responsible for their lives...
...saga grows all the time. Last year Illinois Corrections Director Gayle Franzen had to mount a shakedown like a military maneuver to wrest control of Stateville Correctional Center from the inmate gangs who utterly ran the place. Says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz: "One of the major issues on the prison-reform agenda is how to get the prisons back in the hands of the correction people. Too many prisons are in the hands of inmates." Far too many of the abominations associated with prisons turn out to be not flukes but widespread conditions...