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situation in Iran most resembles one of those Hollywood Westerns.
There they are, the innocent white hostages, surrounded and threatened by a mob of screaming brownskins.
drama unfolds question: can the cavalry make it in time? In this case the cavalry are 160 planes waiting on aircraft carriers to bomb Iran into 'civilisation'.
But the US film industry rarely makes movies these days allotting the role to Indians 'goodie' role to the white settlers. The emergence of the truth - a war of against original know to their cost that it was US support 1953 saddled them with the Shah until the beginning of this year.
'Glorious chapter' The US president at the time, the General Eisenhower, boast of this adventure. He said in 1954: 'We have done good things especially, and overseas too, in Iran, Guatemala. the By •Guatemala, Eisenhower referring to the democrațically elected and its replacement by a right-wing dictatorship Secretary of State John Foster Dulles described Guatemala as glorious chapter in the tradition of the the American states'.
chapter in 19s the Us landed 2, 02st marines in the Dominican Republic to defend a right-wing which two years overthrown an elected government Four years earlier there was the US-sponsored invasion which ended disastrously. Americans at the Bay of Pigs. The aim that particular described -as follows by one of its those who have dispossessed that all their assets will be returned.' Those who had been dispossessed' were the US companies which had been kicked out by Castro, and also the Mafia suffered the same fate and hand-in-glove Revelations by an ex-CIA agent last year show efforts in this direction did not end at the Bay of Pigs. Numerous attempts have been made by assassinate with explosives.
US interference in the affairs of others has not always
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BAHRAIN Base for 5 US. Warships. AMERICAN FLEET 1 Aircraft Carrier. 1 Missile Cruiser 3 Frigates 10 BRITISH SHIPS
plotting to bring Castro down. Revelations