Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central figure in the case appeared to be Mehdi Hashemi, who had charge of spreading Iran's Islamic revolution to other nations. He is a brother of the son-in-law of Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the chosen successor of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Hashemi's opponents include Parliament Speaker Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Ali Khamenei...
...start of the fractious meeting it seemed that any agreement might be scuttled by Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, OPEC's two richest members, had insisted on bolstering their production by some 10%. In the end, Saudi Arabia accepted no increase for itself and instead offered to donate its share of the 200,000 bbl.-a-day production hike to Kuwait...
...winners of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor announced last week were an eclectic roll call of America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed...
Executives at Washington's WETA-TV (which co-produced the series with the BBC) and at PBS have stood by the program, pointing out that it is intended to be an African's view of Africa. Its writer and host, Ali A. Mazrui, a Kenya- born professor of political science at the University of Michigan, admits that his opinions do not "fall into the mainstream of American thinking." But he argues that NEH ought to be willing to "fund things that are outside the perspective of the Western world...