Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three harried-looking Algerian diplomats, conspicuous in their distinctive tailored overcoats, landed at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran last Friday in an atmosphere of high anxiety and tight security. Greeted by aides of Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, they were led quickly past a group of jostling reporters held back by a cordon of police and Islamic Guards, and ushered by plainclothes security men into Mercedes limousines that whisked them directly to a meeting with top Iranian officials. In a dark brown briefcase, the Algerians carried a seven-page document, a formal U.S. bargaining proposal in the hostage negotiations...
...remarks predictably roused Iranian furies. "How brazen-faced can a man be?" fumed Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament. "Not even the entire wealth of the U.S. is enough to compensate Iran for the crimes of the deposed Shah committed against our people under the protection of America." Yet the very intensity of such reactions indicated that Reagan's message may have hit home at a crucial juncture-a fact that in no way displeased the Carter Administration. Confessed a State Department official: "One is tempted to say, 'Right...
...willing, we shall soon no longer have the hostage issue." With those words, Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i aroused fresh sparks of hope last week that the 52 Americans in captivity might be freed. Just possibly, said Raja'i, it could happen as early as "the feast, or the birthday, or whatever they call...
...called family atmosphere of TV's morning shows [Dec. 1] seems to be right out of Dallas, with staff members throwing darts at a picture of Rona Barrett, describing Jane Pauley's work as erratic and Tom Brokaw as frosty, and delighting when Muhammad Ali calls Hartman "the Great White Dope...
...example. At one time considered the paragon of academic excellence for females desiring a college education, Wellesley boasts a proud tradition of its graduates going on to high-powered jobs and prestigious careers. CBS White House correspondent Diana Sawyer, Mary Cunningham of the recent Bendix brouhaha, and actress Ali McGraw are but a few of the successful Wellesley alumnae. In fact the heritage of academic excellence has been at Wellesley for so long that it is not unusual to hear of current Wellesley undergraduates having mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and even great-grandmothers who attended Wellesley in their time...