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Says one doctor: "I think we could give the Shah a prescription for Darvon and send him back to Mexico...
public opinion around the country last week found Americans almost unanimously against handing over the Shah to Khomeini. "We'd be groveling if we caved in now," says Boston Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins. But some consider that it was a major blunder to admit the Shah in the first place, even for medical treatment. Above all, there is frustration and anger. Willard Hedrick, owner of a construction company...
Some face-saving formulas are conceivable. Rafsanjani, speaking to TIME's Van Voorst, suggested that the Iranians might settle for less than an outright return of the Shah...
Said he: "The Administration can considerably improve prospects for a solution by: 1) acknowledging the presence of evidence sufficient to warrant an investigation into criminal charges brought against the deposed Shah; 2) expressing its willingness to extradite the ex-dictator out of respect for the Iranian people's quest for justice; [then] 3) pleading inability to do this because of legal restrictions. If the U.S. Government makes such an announcement it would, I personally feel, open the way for a solution...
...representatives of some non-aligned countries are exploring another possible compromise: the Shah leaves the U.S., and the U.N. grants Iran a chance to air its grievances against the Shah and begin some sort of international judicial proceedings to determine his guilt and whether he should be forced to return the millions he is said to have taken from Iran. Meanwhile, Khomeini "guarantees" release of the hostages, perhaps handing them over to some third country. The U.S. would insist on outright release of the hostages first, but once that is done it would have no objection to Iran's airing...