Forty-two months ago, stirred by the weepy fanaticism of Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran's Parliament voted to drive foreigners from Iran's oilfields. Last week, with neither tears nor cheers, it agreed to ask them back.
IRAN: Back to the Oilfields
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Gaddafi: Obsessed By a Ruthless, Messianic Vision
In the movie reel of his imagination, he sees himself standing alone in the desert, silhouetted against the moon, swathed in traditional Bedouin robes, a farsighted prophet of Islam and the mighty creator of the Great Arab Nation, stretching from the warm Persian Gulf to the dark Atlantic Ocean–a nation that would eclipse the West in power and glory and purity.