Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...outcome of the present turmoil in Iran is almost totally unpredictable. It is unclear how much authority Khomeini, or Iran's ever changing government, exerts over day-to-day events. Much as Khomeini has capitalized on it, the seizure of the U.S. embassy tilted the balance in Iran's murky revolutionary politics from relative moderates to extremists who sometimes seem to listen to no one; the militants at the embassy openly sneer at government ministers, who regularly contradict one another. The death of Khomeini, who has no obvious successor, could plunge the country into anarchy...
...power, Khomeini and his followers displayed a retaliatory streak. Islamic revolutionary courts condemned more than 650 Iranians to death, after trials at which defense lawyers were rarely, if ever, present, and spectators stepped forward to add their own accusations to those of the prosecutors; death sentences were generally carried out immediately by firing squad. An unknown but apparently large number of other Iranians were sentenced to life imprisonment. Khomeini preaches the mercy of God but showed little of his own to those executed, who were, he said, torturers and killers of the Shah's who got what they deserved. Some...
...crimes of the Shah are innumerable. Even a synopsis would be too long for me to present in a single session. In the last two years of the Shah's reign alone ?when people rose to crush the imperial regime and establish an Islamic republic ?this criminal killed more than 60,000 and maimed more than 100,000 of our people. During his reign, the Shah made us economically dependent on the U.S. and turned Iran into a bankrupt state. Our industry is dependent on the West. He has destroyed our agriculture. Politically, he toed the U.S. line...
...word. These days only cash works." The banks, suffering from a loss of both talented employees and nerve, have curtailed credit. "Most of them don't even have a manager," complains Akhavan, who predicts that "we are going to have to live with 100% inflation." (The present rate is 25%.) Still, Akhavan is hopeful that the Islamic republic will be sufficiently flexible in its policies to revive the economy...
...fiscal 1981 (to take effect Oct. 1,1980) will be submitted to Congress late this month. Still being assembled last week, the budget is expected to total about $617 billion, up $74 billion from fiscal 1980. And while Carter had vowed during the 1976 campaign that he would present a balanced budget by 1980, the White House predicts a deficit of about $ 15 billion, roughly half of the anticipated 1980 shortfall...