CIA Reading Room cia-rdp88-01314r000100660014-8: DIPLOMATIC DEBACLE: WHAT[ ] IN IRAN?

Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP88-0131 r01O 10066 ('..e Qv.G THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 13 December 1981 or.a.-atic Debacle: IN MISSION To LRAM. Sy w11iiam H. Sullivan. Norton. 296 pp. $14.95. INSIDE THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION. By John D. Stempel. Indiana University Press. 348 pp. $17.50 ROOTS OF REVOLUTION: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran. By Nikki'R. Keddie, with a section by Yann Richard. Yale University Press. 321 pp. Paperback, $5.95 'AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE The Secret Negotiations. By .Pierre Solinger. Doubleday. 359 pp. $16.95 IRAN: The Untold Story. By Mohamed Heikai. Pantheon. U.S. publication forthcoming in February. INSIDE AND CUT: Hostage to Iran, Hostage to Myself. By Richard Queen, with Patricia Hass. Putnam. 286 pp. $13.95 NO HID)NG PLACE The New York Times Inside Report on the Hostage Crisis. By Robert D. McFadden, Joseph B. Treaster, Maurice Carroll et a). Times Books. 341 pp. 515.50 By SCOTT ARMSTRONG A S AMERICANS, we have learned to appreciate the delicate balances. of a complicated world. We are often reminded that Europe, the Pacific, and the Persian Gulf are so frighteningly interdependent that no crisis can be dealt with in isolation. We understand, for example, how even a_ temporary disruption in the flow of oil to.the United States or its allies can escalate rapidly into the most global, and the most final. of wars. .,..._...- Intimidated by these new dimensions, we are ever more willing to cede to our government broad authority to con-