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...present crisis in Iran is cloaked in hysteria which obscures the important questions: Why is the Shah here and should he be here? The press dwells on the uncomfortable condition of the hostages, the Shah's failing health, and especially on the "anti-Americanism" of Iranians. When hostages express sympathy for their captors' demands, this is dismissed as a psychological syndrome without consideration of the validity of those demands. Feelings of hatred towards Khomeini and Iranians are whipped up at the expense of reasoned consideration of the issues...
...notion that Iranians hate America has been especially good for fostering ugly and irrational anti-Iranian feelings in Americans. But a leaflet distributed in America during the revolution dispels this myth. It urges Americans not connected to the Shah's regime to spread the "message that Iranians are opposed to the interference policies of foreign governments..but not against foreign people." People of the third world bear no hostility to people of good will in this or any nation. They fight the power structure and the multinational corporations that have sadly come to represent America abroad...
Cannibals and Missionaries, By Mary McCarthy. (Harcourt, Brace, $10.95): If Iran is still on the map by the time Christmas rolls around, the basis for this novel's plot is depressingly relevant. A committee of liberals sets off for Iran to uncover the sins of the Shah's regime. On the way they get hijacked and what follows is what critics recognize as McCarthy's most politically aware creation...
...NOTEBOOK: Greatest cheer of year heard in the Garden last night: to the Texas bench, "You may be winning, but you still have the Shah...
...many of the same correspondents-with a particular goal in mind. Last Thursday the Iranian Ministry of National Guidance invited 200 foreign journalists over for lunch. Acting Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr made a sugary appeal for more sympathetic coverage of his government's attempts to retrieve the Shah, declaring, "Diplomats cannot solve this problem...