Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being Soviet spies. Haggard and morose, First Secretary Nureddin Kianuri conceded that since its inception in 1941, the party had been "an instrument of espionage and treason," and added that he had been spying for Moscow since 1945. After seven colleagues elaborated on the details of their treachery, Ali Amou'i, a ranking Central Committee member, warned Iranian youths not to follow his example and calmly declared the dissolution of the entire Tudeh Party. Then, heaping insult upon injury, the Islamic regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini informed 18 Soviet diplomats that they would have 48 hours to leave Iran...
...must honor "big" names to attract attention, let it honor celebrities who have been involved with race relations. Instead of Diana Ross, honor Stevie Wonder, who has dedicated songs to Martin Luther King rather than the acquisition of muscles. Instead of Sugar Ray Leonard, honor former heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali or former N.Y. Giant Rosie Grier...
From the start, the evidence has come in bits and pieces, with each new shred making the mystery only more intriguing. Was the Soviet Union, acting through Bulgaria, behind the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca on that sunny May afternoon in 1981? The latest fragment does not answer that question once and for all, but it tightens the web of circumstantial evidence around the Kremlin. A Bulgarian embassy worker who defected to France in 1981 has told French intelligence officials that the KGB devised the plot to kill the Pope...
...charm and unthreatening masculinity of a slightly more serious Burt Reynolds. Others are getting on-the-job training. "I try as hard as I can, but I see where I need improvement," says Barton. Still others, like the wooden Scalia, appear to have graduated from the Ali MacGraw School of Thespian Arts. "I would have preferred it if Scalia had had some acting experience," admits Thurm, who brought him into television. "But we weren't asking him to play King Lear." Bo Derek, meet Jack Scalia and Peter Barton and Rick Edwards and . . . - By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Denise...
...Paul II touched down in Costa Rica last week, attention in Rome was distracted by new developments related to one of the darkest hours of the Pontiffs reign. Ever since the 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square, suspicion has grown that the convicted Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, took his orders from Bulgarian agents, who in turn might have been acting with the knowledge of the Soviet Union. To date, Italian investigators have arrested one Bulgarian official in Rome for alleged complicity in the plot, and accused two others. Now Italian officials have begun examining links between...