Iran hostage stance risks greater price and future peril
The essay argues the 14 month diplomacy to secure the release of 52 hostages is failing, demanding a harsher view of terms with Iran. It warns the proposed settlement may invite more kidnappings, endangering lives, and stresses the need for stronger action to deter terrorism and protect international law.
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United States
Iran
Carter
State Department
Tod
Israel
Munich
Entebbe
Libya
Cuba
Argentina
el Salvador
Iran voices clash as Bani Sadr battles clerics at front
The Tehran power struggle deepens as President Bani Sadr solidifies wartime leadership at the front while Islamic clerics press against his authority. Clashes in Tehran and Qom signal a widening political crisis amid the Iran Iraq war and rising street agitation.
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John Kifner
New York Times
Tehran
Iran
Abolhassen Bani Sadr
Iraq
Islamic Republican Party
Bani Sadr
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Qom
Khomeini
Lation
Bani-Sadr
Defense Council
Prayer belief vs. national priorities in school debate
Letter to the editor discusses the heated fight over school prayer citing comments by George Medovoy. The writer defends prayer as essential, contrasts it with secular priorities, and invokes national figures and scripture to argue for prayer’s civic role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illnoisan
Josh Barbanel
George Medovoy
El Salvador land reform sparks deadly US-linked killings
In El Salvador, land redistribution to peasants has sparked political violence, with 9000+ killed last year. Two American labor activists, Hammer and Pearlman, were slain in San Salvador amid ongoing expropriation led by the ruling coalition allied with Christian Democrats. The killings follow US reactions to prior missionary deaths and continued aid, as reforms push hundreds of thousands of acres to peasant families and loans boost coffee, cotton, and sugar production.
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Janet Battaile
New York Times
Washington
el Salvador
United States
Christian Democratic Party
Sam Haddad
American Institute For Free Labor Development
Institute
Afl-Cio
Michael P. Hammer
Potomac
Mark David Pearlman
Seattle
Sheraton Hotel
San Salvador
Jose Rodolfo Viera
Agrarian Reform Institute
Pearlman
Philippines
Peace Corps
University of Washington Law School
Navarro Ranch Association
California
Hammer
Paris
Georgetown University Foreign Service School
Free Labor Institute
Jesse Friedman
Colombia
Venezuela
Brazil
Agrarian Union Development Service
Latin America
Carter
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Haddad
Institute For Free Labor Development
The
Land Council
Inter-American Development Bank
Iran Italy hostage crises show no negotiation path
Flora Lewis argues in the New York Times that Iran and Italy use hostage taking to shape internal politics. She notes Tehran factions vie for power, while Italian Red Brigades seek to destabilize the state. No deal will satisfy terrorists. only firm protection of stability and order matters.
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Flora Lewis
New York Times
Paris
Iran
Italy
Tehran
Red Brigades
U.S
Shah
United States
Mehdi Bazargan
Ibrahim Yazdi
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Algiers
Brzezinski
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Mili
Tary
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Pasdaran
Islamic Republicans
Rajai
Arlire
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Dortt
Sten
General Patton
MacArthur
Vietnam
Marlon Brando
America
Barry Rubin
Georgetown University
Middle East
Hadi Modaressi
Modaressi
Rubin
Enrico Galvaligi
Giovanni d’Urso
Red Brigade
d’Urso
Rome
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