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Unfortunately, the U.S. has yet to adopt a policy that is appropriate to that challenge. However, it is not surprising that it has taken so long to make relatively little progress in the energy area because of the vast sums of money involved, the varying perceptions of the Another major complicating factor is that different regions of the nation are fighting one another over the money involved...
Sidney Verba, professor of Government, said that although he thinks Carter made "a serious but moderate response which will be taken into consideration by the Soviets," his actions are not "so strong as to fully deter the Soviet Union from acting in their interest in the future...
...placed aide in the Carter White House" called the HJLSA Friday to assure them that their telegram would have "maximum circulation to all persons who should see it," a spokesman for the HJLSA said yesterday. He added that the aide also gave his assurance that no action would be taken soon on Mendelsohn's reassignment...
...devils" and "agents of Satan" have persuaded some American politicians that Khomeini is?in the words of Egypt's Anwar Sadat ?"a lunatic." Not so, conclude most Iranian scholars. "I don't think he's crazy," says Columbia University Historian Richard Bulliet. "Most of his decisions have been taken quite logically as a consequence of his perception of the popular will." Richard Falk, professor of international relations and foreign policy at Princeton, concurs: "When he seems the most crazy to us, he appears most exemplary to the Iranian people. That suggests you would have to say all of Iran...
...Iranian city dwellers have a serious common complaint, it is that the revolution has led to a sharp slowdown in the economy. Few factories are operating anywhere near capacity. Most privately owned companies have been taken over by the government-run Mostazafin Foundation, which inherited the assets of the deposed Shah's Pahlavi Foundation, or are being run by workers' councils. For the most part, these councils have shown themselves to be short on management skills and quick to vote themselves wage increases, fringe benefits and reduced working hours...