Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take the heat from countries that need oil revenues, and the answer is no," says Henry Schuler of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. Iran has claimed that its brutal February advance into Iraq was partly a warning to the Saudis. Said Iranian President Seyed Ali Khamene'i: "We shall respond to fists by fists. The price war is no less important to us than the military war at the front...
...Mehmet Ali Agca was at it again. "I am Jesus Christ," bellowed the man who shot Pope John Paul II. "All the world will be destroyed." The now familiar outburst came on March 22, the final day of the marathon "Bulgarian connection" trial in Rome. The prosecution's aim: to prove that the Turkish gunman, who was convicted in 1981 of gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself...
...think most people caught on," said Irfan S. Ali '89, who was reading on the lawn with roommates. Amy B. Zegart '89 was also sitting in the sun, anddidn't expect Eastwood to show...
...chant: "We are Pro-choice," to the rhythm of "We are Penn State." Hundreds of people line the streets, clapping and cheering; a few look on, shaking their heads. An old woman stares right at you, as if in anger. Then she smiles, and raises her fists like Muhammud Ali. You smile back, and raise your fist, nearly dropping your end of the banner...
...began with a bang and seems likely to end with a whimper. The bang: the gunshots fired at Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. The whimper: Italian Prosecutor Antonio Marini's recommendation last week that three Bulgarian defendants charged with complicity in the attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack...