Word: ali
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini earlier this month put pressure on Iran to make some kind of move to break out of the diplomatic isolation into which it had become sealed during his decade-long xenophobic rule. The main question was which direction Tehran would look in first. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful Speaker of Iran's parliament, provided the answer. Interrupting his observance of a 40-day period of national mourning for the late Imam, Rafsanjani arrived in Moscow to an elaborate reception. The visit was the beginning of a thaw between neighbors whose relations had been frosty...
Bhutto is an example of that trend. Although she had a privileged childhood, she spent much of a decade in prison and exile. She suffered through the overthrow, imprisonment and execution of her father Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at the hands of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an airplane crash last year. Three months later, Bhutto became Prime Minister after waging a fiery political campaign that led hundreds of thousands of her supporters into the streets...
...lobbyist. Former Tennessee Congressman Bill Boner argued successfully that a camper given to him by the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association was not a gift because he used it on a fact-finding trip. Senator Orrin Hatch received a $7,500 gem-encrusted gold ring inscribed WITH LOVE FROM ALI after the Utah Republican introduced a bill to allow Muhammad Ali and others similarly situated to sue the Government over wrongful draft-evasion convictions. Hatch laughed off any notion that the ring was tied to the bill. "((Ali)) said he would beat me up if I didn't take...
...utter isolation in the world of nations had become apparent just two weeks before the cease-fire decision, when a U.S. frigate mistakenly shot down an Iranian jetliner with 290 people aboard: international response was notably muted. In the following months, leading Iranian politicians such as Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 54, attempted to soften their country's radical image. But Khomeini would have none of it. Last February he prompted a worldwide outcry when he demanded the death of Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born, British author of The Satanic Verses, a book many regard as blasphemous to Islam...
Khomeini's reassertion of radical Islamic rejectionism soon claimed his appointed successor, Ayatullah Ali Montazeri, 65, as a victim. Montazeri had harshly criticized the war with Iraq and did not endorse the killing of Rushdie. In late March he was forced to resign...