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...occasionally strident anti-American rhetoric, followed suit five days later. That left the field open for a stable of dark horses. The first straw poll, conducted behind the closed doors of the Security Council's chambers, gave the necessary minimum of nine votes to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 48, a Harvard-educated Iranian citizen who was the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977. But there was one hitch: his detractors included Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, who, because he represents one of the council's five permanent members, was entitled to veto any candidate...
...specific arrangements--financial or otherwise--have yet been agreed upon, said Spellman, who has coordinated preliminary negotiations with the Aga Khan Foundation...
...spokesman for the Aga Khan's family said that the philanthropist wants to design health facilities that can be imitated by medical leaders throughout the Third World...
...other western universities, McMaster and McGill, have already provided assistance in establishing a nursing school for the Aga Khan facility...
...Aga Khan gave $11.5 million to Harvard and MIT to establish a joint program for the study and preservation of Islamic architecture...