Word: ali
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This Issue: Colin F. Boyle '90 Night Editors: Ross G. Forman '90 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Tara A. Nayak '92 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Features Editor Joseph R. Palmore '91 Sports Editors: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editors: Michael F. Koehler '92 Ali F. Zaidi '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Michael P. Mann '91 Graphics Editor: Edward G. Owen
Nonetheless, a subdued hope of movement surrounded the news last week that the U.S. had consented to repay $567 million in frozen Iranian assets. The agreement was reached after two days of negotiations between State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer and a senior adviser to Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The two met in the Hague, site of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal that was set up as part of the 1981 deal that freed the 62 American embassy hostages in Tehran. Both sides agreed that Iran will be paid most of the balance remaining...
Iran's Rafsanjani is believed by Washington to be anxious to dispose of the hostage issue quickly so he can open his war-ravaged country to the outside world. But powerful hard-liners still want to block any contact with the West. Former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami, one of the most intransigent of the revolutionary mullahs, was excluded from Rafsanjani's government earlier this year. He can still get mobs out into the streets, however, as he proved by leading large anti-American demonstrations in Tehran earlier this month to mark the tenth anniversary of the seizure...
...This Issue: Colin F. Boyle '90 Night Editors: Ross G. Forman '90 Melissa R. Hart '91 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Features Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Sports Editor: Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editors: Ali F. Zaidi '92 William H. Bachman '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Catherine M. Song...
...precariousness of fame in a medium that chews up stars like M & M's. "One bad show, and I'm mentally packing a U- Haul," he says. "But I don't want to start playing it safe. I accept the fact that I can't have it forever. Ali was the greatest, but someday someone beat him, and someone beat the guy who beat him. When I was in high school, J.J. Walker was the hottest. Recently I saw a ((cable)) special in which people walked by him and joked, 'That's Arsenio Hall.' Because...