Word: islamicizing
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Americans rejoiced in the Inauguration Day liberation of the 52 hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Nonetheless, Iran threatens to succeed Viet Nam as a symbol of American frustration and impotence. American diplomatic support and military backing could not prevent the fall of the Shah, who for decades seemed...
It also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about...
After perfunctory questioning that evening at an Islamic Guards headquarters set up in the late Shah's lavish Saadabad Palace in the northern part of the city, most of the detainees were released. I was not. My questioning had scarcely begun when a guard whispered something into my interrogator...
On the sixth day of captivity, I was questioned again, in yet another Islamic Guard center. A lightly bearded lad, about 22, tried to interrogate me above the babble of noise as minor government officials shouted their need for more gasoline coupons, newspaper vendors protested that they sold only Islamic...
Since any one arm of the various groups that rule Iran seldom knows what the others are doing, I was able to get a visa to travel to Pakistan. To confuse and elude the men who were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home...