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The issue of whether Iran should continue to hold the hostages festered throughout the Americans' captivity, as they were used by one faction or another as pawns in the struggle for power. Eventually the right-wing clerics, who until recently wanted the Americans to be kept captive, managed to...
Tehran critics of the accord immediately noted that Iran so far has received only $2.8 billion in gold and cash instead of the $24 billion originally demanded. For the moment, the cash has saved Iran from imminent financial disaster, and the agreement has released the country from its economic isolation...
Washington insiders have already divided Reagan's economic advisers into two groups: the radical supply-siders, who include Budget Director David Stockman and New York Congressman Jack Kemp, and the moderate Republican conservatives led by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Weidenbaum is expected to join the moderates, who place a...
Other members represent conflicting leftist isms ranging from Trotskyism to orthodox Marxist-Leninism to "Christian Socialism." Differences about strategy and tactics have also contributed to the revolution's fragmentation. The moderates, like Ungo, for instance, may one day choose the route of political compromise with the government if-and...
The murders, with all their similarities to the I.R.A.'s killing of Lord Mountbatten in August 1979, drew condemnation from moderates on both sides of the sectarian struggle. "Even at 86 years of age," said Catholic Politician Austin Currie, "Sir Norman was still incomparably more of a man than...