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THIS WEEK the Carter administration agreed to hear the Iranian charges against the former Shah of Iran at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. This decision is a positive step toward a de-escalation of tensions and a good sign that the administration understands that the Iranians must have an international forum--a place to blow off steam--if a military confrontation is to be avoided and the lives of the hostages saved. Without compromising the nation's stance on the sanctity of foreign embassies and decisions to grant asylum, the United States can take steps...
When he entered a Manhattan hospital for medical treatment last month, the Shah joined a large contingent of former heads of state-some honorable, some not-who have sought refuge in the U.S. Alexander Kerensky, Prime Minister of a short-lived democracy in post-Czarist Russia, eventually found a home here after his ouster by the Soviets. So did Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, South Korean Strongman Syngman Rhee, Cambodia's Marshal Lon Nol and Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, a resident of California, will be eligible to apply...
...assault on the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Though the inviolability of the diplomatic envoy has been a principle practiced since the Middle Ages, embassies and representatives of governments have frequently been targets for protest. In 1829 a Persian mob-egged on by nationalistic mullahs in the court of the Shah-stormed the Russian embassy in Tehran and massacred almost the entire staff. Xenophobia figured large in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion (so called because it was led by a group named the Righteous and Harmonious Fists), when rebels seeking to wipe out foreign influence in China laid siege to the diplomatic...
Iranian properties in the U.S. are even more meager. The most conspicuous among them is the 36-story skyscraper on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street. It is owned by the tax-exempt Pahlavi Foundation, created by the Shah but now controlled by the Ayatullah's supporters. The Iranians also own some U.S. military spare parts stored in a warehouse at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base and awaiting shipment. But, says David Bauer, an economist for the Conference Board, a New York-based research group, "I can't think of a single Iranian...
...could restore to man the freedom lost in 20 centuries of apology and devices for subjugation." The Met's catalogue is stuffed with this kind of rant and salted with fulminations against the demons of the "corrupt" art world that make the Ayatullah's views on the Shah seem, by comparison, mere tickling. Nevertheless, Still's notes on the history of abstract expressionism, which sharply contradict some idées reçues of the official version, are largely borne out by the evidence of his paintings. We see, for instance, how Barnett Newman's much...