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...ABOLHASSAN ASTANEH-ASL, a civil-engineering professor, after a rod installed during emergency repairs to the San Francisco--Oakland Bay Bridge snapped and fell, forcing the bridge to be closed indefinitely...
...once seemed a gentle, if extraordinarily zealous, cleric. During the upheaval that toppled the Shah, Khomeini urged his followers to remain nonviolent. In part, this was a shrewd wish to avoid harsh military reprisals, but his caution also reflected Khomeini's temperament at that time. Abolhassan Banisadr, whom Khomeini ousted as President in 1981, notes that in the final weeks of Khomeini's exile the Ayatullah "would not even kill a fly." Yet after Khomeini became Iran's ruler, he exhorted his countrymen to kill, burn and destroy...
...prisoners would be set free, largely because Syrian officials promised that "an American" would be coming out of Beirut. When none appeared, some State Department hostage experts concluded that no further prisoners are likely to be released until a new Administration comes to power. In Paris former Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr claimed that secret arms-for-hostages negotiations were taking place between Iran and Americans. Secretary of State George Shultz strenuously denied any bargaining at the official level but said that some unauthorized approaches have been made by private parties, whom he invited to "butt...
...While in Paris on his European sabbatical, President Derek C. Bok has a chance encounter with the former Prime Minister of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. Bani-Sadr recognizes the world renowned educator and, aware of Bok's efforts to make Harvard a force for progress in education throughout the world, the Iranian emigre offers Bok an opportunity to strike a blow for enlightenment and freedom on three continents. The exile tells Bok of the heroic efforts of a group of moderate Iranian educators who are struggling to give students a liberal arts education despite the mullahs' decision to eliminate funding...
...1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...