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...border into Pakistan from Paktia province last week. Explained Alip Jon, 41: "There are too many tanks, and planes are always coming. For every one of us here, two or three are still fighting, but I fear Paktia is done for." Others talked as truculently as ever. Said Gul Amir, 36: "The Russians can't stay in Afghanistan. They are so alien that even the animals hate them...
Using the student militants as a sort of Muslim Red Guard, Khomeini unleashed a campaign to silence critics of his strict theocracy. The students produced documents, purportedly from embassy files, indicating that Ambassador to Sweden Abbas Amir Entezan had advised the U.S. on ways of mending relations with the revolutionary government. One document described him as "actively interested in maintaining contacts with the United States and sincerely trying to mend bilateral relations between Iran and the United States." Summoned to Tehran, supposedly for consultations, Entezam was arrested at the airport on charges of disloyalty. Meanwhile, the Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini...
...bend with the wind. Bahrain, long known for its easygoing Western ways-it is one of the few countries in the area where liquor is sold-has, in deference to Muslim tradition, just opened an interest-free Islamic bank and banned male hairdressers from attending to women. The Amir of Kuwait has promised that his country's national assembly, "suspended" since 1976, will be reopened next year...
...quickly to be satisfied. One by one they were executed ... Before the parody of a trial which preceded his execution, General Amir Hussein Rabii, commander in chief of the Iranian air force, was questioned about the role played by General Huyser. He replied to his judges: 'General Huyser threw the emperor out of the country like a dead mouse...
...revolutionary regime, is devoting his time to writing and art. The deposed diplomat, who in the past penned essays, film criticisms and six novels, has turned to nonfiction: the events that led to the downfall of the Shah and the execution of Hoveida's older brother, former Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida. Meanwhile, a Manhattan gallery is showing 37 examples of his Persian calligraphy, which consists of colorful, paper-on-paper abstractions. Eighteen have already been sold at prices ranging from...