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Word: aly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talkies, shortwave radios, "safe" phone lines and even carrier pigeons. Their strength also comes from a 5,000-member intelligence network that has penetrated every level of Khomeini's hierarchy. One example: Massoud Keshmiri, the top government aide who carried a bomb right into a meeting with President Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar, killing them and six others last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Bloodshed in the Streets Again | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...government hoped to recoup, psychologically at least, by claiming a massive turnout in the country's third presidential election. Though results will not be official until midweek, it was a foregone conclusion that the Islamic republic's third President would be the clerics' approved candidate: Hojjatoleslam Ali Khamene'i, 42, a Majlis (parliament) representative still partly paralyzed from the explosion of a Mujahedin-planted bomb last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Bloodshed in the Streets Again | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...Thatcher has personal charisma, but she doesn't have the instant star ability of a Muhammad Ali," Browne said, adding, "She can't easily put senior cabinet members into the House of Lords, because that would create threatening by-elections...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: British MP Perceives 'Threat' | 9/23/1981 | See Source »

...jingle, which is presented five times in pop, rock, acid rock, country and gospel versions. Warbling it among a huge cast will be 55 entertainment and sports celebrities, ranging from tuneful Olivia Newton-John to frog-flat Paul Newman. (Among others: John Travolta, Cheryl Tiegs, Tracy Austin, Muhammad Ali, Carol Burnett.) A week later the NBC campaign will close in a Bob Hope special, with a call by the comedian for a continuing, nationwide antidrug alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Get High on Yourself | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...away those rounds in exchange for not getting tagged by a Hearns right hand. For his part, the Hit Man didn't seem to fear Leonard at all until he took a beating in the sixth and seventh. After that he was a different fighter. He looked like Muhammed Ali looked each time he fought Kenny Norton. You could almost hear him thinking, "Can't let this guy close. Can't let him near me. Just four more rounds...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Hearns: A Hero Fallen | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

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