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...same time, Washington experts agreed that U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan, like his predecessor Richard Helms, had been an uncritical fan of the Shah and had been operating without careful supervision from Washington. "He would have been happier," remarked a Washington official, "if he had received more guidance...
...that, the Shah's dilemma is mostly one of his own making. The unrest in Iran has its roots in his failure to permit the growth of a responsible opposition to his one-man rule. His commendable effort to modernize Iran by educating its people and raising their standard of living was imperiled from the start by his refusal to allow a greater measure of political expression. Ironically, the forces that the Shah set loose continue to pose the greatest challenge to his regime...
...garments seemed, the wonder was that there was any joking at all among the 30,000 U.S. citizens remaining in Iran. For most of them-Government employees, military advisers, businessmen, technicians, teachers-life has been a matter of steadily rising tension, isolation and harassment as the anti-Shah demonstrations have taken on an ever more anti-American tone. Most have endured it anxiously but stoically. Says a U.S. oil executive in a southern oil-producing region: "So many of us have sent our families away and are half packed that there aren't many more measures we can take...
...Shah were to go, of course, there could be a mass exodus, especially if a new regime proved actively xenophobic. For now, Americans generally try to stay off the streets and out of harm's way. Such precaution has become more and more sensible as they have been increasingly subjected to threats, insults and assaults by Iranians angered at Washington's support of the Shah. Many Americans have received threatening letters, shoved under a door or placed under a car windshield wiper. One anonymous letter warned several American families in the central city of Isfahan: "If you think...
Former President Gerald R. Ford said the Shah of Iran's power might not be in jeopardy today if the Carter administration had stood fast in support of the monarch. Meanwhile, Sen.-elect Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) attacked the timing of U.S. recognition of China, which he said may result in the defeat of a SALT treaty with the Soviet Union...