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...Iranian militants have held hostages in the embassy since November 4 hoping to exchange them for the former shah of Iran, the Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, currently receiving medical treatment in New York City...
Silber's opponents charge that his dictatorial actions have turned B.U. into a place "more like Iran under the Shah or Chile under the Junta than like an institution of higher learning," in the words of one critic. They charge him with using tenure, promotions, and salaries to punish his opponents on the faculty in a systematic effort to stamp out dissent. They accuse him of censoring student publications and the student radio station. Most recently, they protest his effort to fire or suspend five of his staunchest critics on the faculty for teaching classes off-campus or making them...
...problems of the Shah and the captives are to be dealt with in the same attitude of concern for justice based on an ethical humanitarianism. The citizens of the U.S.A. were seized illegally but to the Iranians, the U.S.A. had "seized" the Shah and is keeping him "under guard." It is necessary to understand the outlook of the persons with whom one wants to negotiate; for the Iranians it is a question of a simple exchange of prisoners. Again, the problem is not whether it was legal to seize the embassy personnel. The recognition that that was not legal...
This in itself would not be a justification to exchange an innocent person for the captives, but the case is that there is a large voice claiming that the Shah should be tried according to international norms of jurisprudence. For the sake of the embassy personnel and in the interest of international law, research should be undertaken immediately to study the possibility of recognizing the legitimacy of the Iranian people's claim for a trial, and eventually the possibility of conducting a trial on neutral territory. Geneva, for instance, has the facilities for such a procedure and there the Shah...
Followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have been holding hostages at the embassy since November 4. They are demanding the extradition of the deposed Shah Reza Pahlavi, currently receiving medical treatment in New York...