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arter aids Iran’s martyr request
United Press International
NEW YORK — Every time Presi-
ent Carter threatens Iran, he plays
fight into the hands of the Ayatollah
uhollah Khomeini, says an expert
n the Persian culture.
The Iranians in their frustration
ith rapid modernization under the
hah turned to religion — the only
adition they had left, said Professor
Peter Chelkowski of New York Uni
versity. That religion is based on self-
sacrifice, guilt and a hatred of vil
lains, he said in a weekend inter
view.
“Khomeini has managed to take
this syndrome of sacrifice and guilt,
this hatred of villains and translate it
to the shah and his supporters,”
Chelkowski said. “The whole ritual is
reenacted in a political framework. ”
When Carter retaliates to the
holding of 50 Americans in the be
sieged U.S. Embassy in Tehran with
threats, Chelkowski said this only
helps Khomeini unify his people
against a common enemy.
Iranian admirals responded to
Carter’s order to U.S. Navy ships to
toward Iran in the Indian
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WASHINGTON — The nation’s
idustrial output fell 0.5 percent last
lonth, prompting one government
sonomist to say the economy is gra-
ually eroding, an erosion that
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The Federal Reserve Board said
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>rs of the economy.
“The motor vehicles industry is
early in a recession,’ said Com-
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in the first half of 1979.
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The November drop in industrial
reduction — the output of the na-
on’s factories, mines and utilities —
illowed a flat performance in Octo-
^ er and a 0.5 percent increase in
eptember, the Federal Reserve
oard said.
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ed 0.5 percent, reflecting weakness
i sales of appliances, carpeting and
imiture.
Help for $ savers
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A new 30-month certificate of deposit will be
offered Jan. 1 that will allow small savers to take advantage of record
interest rates, federal financial regulators say.
Also, the new certificates will require no minimum deposit, a major
breakthrough for Americans trying to protect their savings against
inflation.
One of the main purposes of the certificate will be to help thrift
institutions lure funds away from popular money market funds.
If the new certificates are successful, more money would become
available for loans within the hard-pressed housing industry. That
means home mortgages would become easier to obtain.
For those Americans not seeking a new mortgage, the government
decision is still significant because it allows them access to high interest
rates on their savings, no matter how little money they have to invest.
Six-month money market certificates now offered by financial insti
tutions have a $10,000 minimum. Most money market funds require a
minimum deposit of at least $1,000.
In addition to the high interest rates, the new certificates of deposit
also will allow for compounding, a feature not available for money
market certificates.
Ocean by donning the white shrouds
of martyrdom. Those same shrouds,
bearing Persian writing that says the
bearers are willing to die, are worn
by demonstrators seen outside the
U.S. embassy in Tehran.
“Our nation looks forward to the
opportunity of self-sacrifice and mar
tyrdom,” he said Khomeini wrote in
a letter to the pope.
The Iranians are simply acting out
in real life what they have seen de
picted in their theatrically bloody
folk passion plays known as
“Ta’ziyeh” since the 10th century,
said Chelkowsid. He spent three
years studying the dramas in Iran
and has written a book about it.
The plays, which are similar to
Christiandom’s Stations of the Cross
depicting the death of Christ, show
the “heroic martyrdom” of Hussein,
the grandson of the prophet Moham
med, who was cut to pieces by his
religious and political opponents in
680, Chelkowski said.
The Shiites believe martyrdom
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them at the final day of judgment.
The Iranian people turned to
Khomeini, who returned to Iran af
ter 15 years of exile last winter, be
cause “the shah tried to industrialize
too fast,” Chelkowski said.
“The shah took a family and group-
oriented society that had survived 25
centuries and completely disrupted
it,” he said.
“There were too many cars. There
was no room to move. Things didn’t
work and there wasn’t even time to
do the traditional things like see the
extended family,” Chelkowski said.
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