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...Khomeini under virtual house arrest in 1975. Three years later, as the Shah came under increasing pressure from Islamic fundamentalists operating with Khomeini's backing, Saddam agreed to expel the Ayatullah. It was then that Khomeini moved to France. Today Khomeini refers to Saddam as "the epitome of atheist filth...
Despite all that the Catholic Church did for him, Herrin is now an atheist who has "retired from religion." Interviewed by Meyer after he had spent three years in a medium-security prison, he insists: "I think I've served enough time to compensate." Others would side with the prosecution, among them Gaylin. Arguing against canny insanity pleas, and for moral responsibility, he concludes: "The killing of Bonnie Garland, first by Richard Herrin and then again by a legal and cultural process . . . endangers us all. In our compassion for the criminal, we must remain vigilant in defense...
...decision to enlist the Soviets for help was a wrenching turn for the Islamic fundamentalists who run the ruling I.R.P. The party's strict religious orientation requires its leaders to denounce atheist Communism. But the I.R.P. felt forced to act when it was unable to organize an efficient intelligence and security organization to cope with last summer's spectacular wave of assassinations of government leaders. The campaign was conducted by the Mujahe-din-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), urban guerrillas who had penetrated virtually every government institution. The small Tudeh Communist Party in Iran convinced the leaders...
...again, only to be hauled in front of more committees. Hammett had always claimed to be a Marxist and a Socialist--and put no faith in the Fascism that increasingly crept into Stalin's Russia. But such subtleties were lost on the zealots. Marxism was considered synonymous with godless, atheist Ivans. The labor movements of the '20s and '30s simply did not translate...
...combined symbol of the nation's rebirth and peril: midnight Mass. Though most Poles were at that moment in their own parish churches, the broadcast from Cracow's Wawel Cathedral, the former seat of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, was a telling concession from the country's atheist government to the changes that have swept the land in the past four months. As if the Mass were not unusual enough, Pope John Paul II-who after his election two years ago was denied his wish to send an uncensored Christmas message to his home archdiocese-was accorded twelve minutes...