Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...usually happens in revolutions, the forces of dissolution, once let loose, are not so easily tamed. Iran's economy suffered deeply, and unrest in at least three ethnic areas?those of the Kurds, the Azerbaijanis and the Baluchis?presented continuing threats to Tehran's, or Qum's, control. Many Western experts believe Khomeini shrewdly seized upon the students' attack on the U.S. embassy, which he applauded but claims he did not order, as a way of directing popular attention away from the country's increasing problems. It gave him once again a means of presenting all difficulties as having been...
...Haven't you really lost a measure of control? The embassy takeover was allegedly undertaken without your knowledge or the support of the Revolutionary Council. Didn't the students take policymaking out of your hands? Do you really control the crowds...
...where he became the first Pope to be received at the White House, he was an inspiring preacher of good will and compassion, but also a firm advocate of strict church discipline. Though his doctrinal positions against birth control, divorce, and married and women priests are opposed or ignored by many U.S. Catholics, his visit was still a huge success. In overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey, his long-range goal was restoration of harmony between the world's 700 million Roman Catholics and the 125 million adherents of the Eastern Orthodox faith, who have been divided since the 11th century...
...Soviets obviously hoped that their brazen, perhaps desperate, action could help their puppet regime bring a stubborn Islamic insurgency in Afghanistan under control and thus stabilize a dangerous flash point on their southern border. But the coup, in fact, added a new dimension of uncertainty to an area of the world already deeply disturbed by the crisis in Iran. Moreover, the deployment of Soviet troops on foreign soil in Central Asia set a fearsome precedent that cast new shadows over international detente and Moscow-Washington relations. The SALT II accord, already in difficulty in the U.S. Senate, seemed even further...
...best analysis of U.S. intelligence at that time was that the Soviets were matching Washington's naval and air buildup in the Middle East. It later seemed, however, that apart from any U.S. buildup, Moscow acted primarily to meet a situation in Afghanistan it could no longer effectively control. The Russians apparently decided to make their show of force in the shadow of the Iranian problem, much as they had intervened in Hungary in 1956 while the West was preoccupied with the Suez crisis. Moscow made a Realpolitik decision: Amin would have...