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That work of persuasion was sparklingly successful. Though Afghanistan's new Foreign Minister, Shah Mohammed Dost, flew in to declare that the Soviets were welcome in his land, dozens of delegates from small and fledgling countries rose to ridicule the Soviet line. Asked Papua-New Guinea's ambassador, Paulias N. Matane: "Should we accept the argument, then, that President Amin [of Afghanistan] invited the Soviet troops to overthrow his own government and eventually kill him? I find that hard to believe." Pakistan's Agha Shahi, who flew in to co-sponsor the anti-Soviet resolution, was more...
With that, the drive to condemn Moscow shifted to an emergency session of the General Assembly, where vetoes do not apply and where Third World countries hold a strong majority. The Soviets let Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Dost carry their case at the debate's opening. He protested that the U.N. was reviving the "dark days of the cold war." Other delegates remained unpersuaded. Charged Colombia's delegate Indalecio Lievano: The Soviets' arrogant abuse of power represents "a return to the law of the jungle in the era of nuclear weapons...
...hostages who have been held captive in the Tehran embassy since Nov. 4. Reporting to the Security Council on his mission to Iran, United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim held out little hope for a speedy resolution, since Iranian authorities continued to demand the extradition of the Shah and the return of his assets...
...always have the advantage: their account of any conversation is what gets printed. Quinn's friends probably put it down as jocular banter when she herself was quoted as having "had to promise my body over and over to the higher-ups" to get an interview with the Shah's wife. But in a book she wrote called We're Going to Make You a Star, Quinn says that her well-publicized failure to make it as an anchorwoman competing with Barbara Walters was mostly the fault of a top CBS producer, whom she names, because...
...presumably more revealing-candor. In Interview with History, Fallaci remembers Kissinger as "an eel icier than ice" and says, "I swear that I will never understand why he agreed to see me." Ayatullah Khomeini may have agreed to see her because she had been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind that sad face"). Fallaci wore a floor-length black chador to interview the Ayatullah, then, getting angry, dramatically announced, "I'm going to take off this stupid medieval rag right now." She told Libya...