| |
| | Documents 24-44 |
 | | There are increasing indications that these older leaders are losing their former tight control over the loyalties of their followers, and that younger, more radical, and more demagogic leaders are emerging, particularly in the new student movement, who regard the moderate leadership of the Front as ineffective, timid, and old. |
 | | Leaders of the traditional elite are divided between a minority favoring formal Iranian alignment with the West and a majority favoring the traditional Iranian policy of playing off big powers against each other and avoiding commitments to any large power, while extracting the maximum in aid from all sides. |
 | | We must note, however, that the leader of this particular group is probably the most moderate of all potential leaders of the class, and that he and his followers admitted openly that the promise represented the stiff price which they are willing to pay for American "support" in a bid for power. |
| www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/xvii/17704.htm (16847 words) |
|