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Petroleum, pp. 116-118. R.K. Ramazani, Revolutionary Iran: Challenge and
Respect in the Middle East, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland,
1986, p. 201.
153. Shaul Bakash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution,
Basic Books, New York, 1984, pp. 12-13.
154. Attending the festivities were "the Kings of Norway and Sweden, of Thailand
and Denmark, of Belgium and Greece. Prince Philip and Princess Anne came from
Britain, the Emperor Haile Selassie and President Senghor of Senegal from Africa,
Vice-President Agnew from the United States and President Podgorny from the
Soviet Union; King Hussein and Presidents Franjieh of Lebanon and Bourguiba of
Tunisia... not to mention the Prime ministers of France, Italy and Portugal."
(Mohamed Heikal, The Return of the Ayatollah, p. 94.)
155. The official caterer was Maxim's of Paris. But if you didn't care for Maxim's
cuisine, the Shah graciously flew in the chef of your choice.
156. Mohamed Heikal, The Return of the Ayatollah, pp. 94-97.
157. Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini: Political,
Philosophical, Social, and Religious, Bantam Books, New York, 1980, pp. 5-27.
158. David Blundy and Andrew Lycett, Quaddafi and the Libyan Revolution,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987, p. 107.
159. David Blundy and Andrew Lycett, Quaddafi and the Libyan Revolution, pp.
105, 108, 111.
160. In 1973, for example, OPEC's oil embargo produced a dizzying rise in oil
prices--and in income for Libyans. But during the year that followed, the Libyan
murder rate shot up 55%! (David Blundy and Andrew Lycett, Quaddafi and the
Libyan Revolution, p. 111.)
161. Donald T. Lunde, Murder and Madness, p. 32. Lunde is a criminal psychiatrist
at Stanford University.
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