Training Iranians In Charlottesville Sparks Security Debate
Rep. J Kenneth Robinson seeks to end a two week training of 15 Iranian navy personnel by Rand Corp Sperry Marine Systems in Charlottesville. The episode prompts broader questions about how many Iranian military personnel or students receive U.S. training, amid tense Iran Soviet alliance dynamics and 50 Americans held in Tehran.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
United States
Lulu Williams
Iran
Afghanistan
Soviet Union
State Department
Tehran
Iran Expels American Journalists Amid Press Freedom Rift
Iran's Revolutionary Council ordered all journalists for American news organizations expelled, citing a gulf between Iran's press freedom and Western standards. Reporters from France Britain and West Germany may remain, highlighting selective enforcement of Kipling style East West divide.
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Revolutionary Council
Abolghassem Sadegh
Ministry of National Guidance
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France
Britain
West Germany
Letters to the Editor The Gas Tax and ERA Debate
Readers fault a proposed four percent wholesale gas tax to fund state road work and criticize spending on oil company advertising. A mother of two voices opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment arguing it threatens motherhood and raises wage equality questions for women.
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John Dalton
State Highway Department
Virginia
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ERA
Carter’s Afghanistan move prompts cautious U.S. reaction
The piece argues Americans favor restraint over warlike steps in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It notes polls showing broad support for Carter’s restraint, warns against a purely military response, and suggests deterrence through political and economic costs rather than force.
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Ford
Des Moines Register
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Europe
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American Test on Iranian Students by Lulu Williams
Winchester editorial discusses deportation of Iranian students amid U.S. visa enforcement and Iran related tensions. It cites INS figures, court actions, and varied local opinions from students veterans and civil libertarians while urging lawful yet humane treatment within a freedom loving framework.
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Virginia
State Department
Iran Working Group
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
The World’s Invisible Leaders in a Crisis Era
Washington confronts a power vacuum as leaders in Iran Afghanistan and Moscow appear unable to control events. Giscard d Estaing warns that war hinges on a few unseen decision makers while officials concede they do not know who holds real authority.
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Valery Giscard d’Estaing
France
State Department
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Kurt Waldheim
Tehran
Carter
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iran
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Saga Ay
Brown
China
U.S
Moscow
Persian Gulf
Peking
India
Andakistan
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