Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many books in the collection "are hardly ever used, because we don't have an area studies center," said Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali Asani, who teaches modern Indian languages. Asani cited his current research on a collection of 150 manuscripts he stumbled upon--still uncatalogued...
...mystery until early the next morning, when the video camera was finally lowered into place. What the scientists saw & on the monitor looked like a pile of lumber under reed matting. Even so, recalled Tans, "as soon as we saw it, we knew it was a boat." Tohamy Mahmoud Ali, an Egyptian worker who had helped excavate the first vessel, broke into excited Arabic as he recognized the disassembled ship lying in its narrow pit. At one end were several upright pieces, perhaps parts of the prow...
...assuring the Reagan Administration of their moderation while publicly proclaiming their hostility to the West. Sources in both Tehran and Washington say the U.S. has been approached on several occasions over the past three weeks by intermediaries who claim to represent senior Iranian officials, including Speaker of the Parliament Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani...
Iran did not acknowledge firing the missile. Iranian President Ali Khamenei told worshippers at Tehran University yesterday that an American-flagged ship was "hit by a missile...
Last week Bourguiba ensured that the pressure on dissenters will continue when he abruptly sacked his Prime Minister and replaced him with Interior Minister Zine al Abidine ben Ali, who has led the crackdown on the fundamentalists. "You will not see any steps toward greater pluralism now," / commented one worried Western diplomat. Indeed, Bourguiba has knocked out his opposition so effectively that many fear there is now no credible successor, and that when he dies the radical fundamentalists will leap to fill the political void...