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...mountain village of Jamaran, two miles north of the capital, the corridors of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's modest house buzzed like a beehive. Turbaned mullahs, ostensibly come to congratulate the Ayatullah on the anniversary of Mab'ath, the day God chose Muhammad as his Prophet, seized the occasion to denounce their enemies and advance their respective causes. The byzantine scene prompted one local observer to remark, "The place reeks of conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Place Reeks of Conspiracy | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...reviewing the last two years since Sadat's decision, Egypt has already had one very significant victory: The anti-Sadat, anti-Camp David, anti-Peace Front is already falling apart, I must say, sooner than I had expected. The traditional rivalry between Iraq and Syria, between the two Ba'ath regimes has proved to be, for the time being, stronger than the anti-Israeli cement...

Author: By Shlomo Gazit, | Title: Normalization or Destabilization? | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

...standard, some of the expenses run up by top brass at the 75,000-member Worldwide Church of God were boggling: $22,571 for a stay at the Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris; $12,402 for six pieces of Steuben glass; $7,509 for furnishings at Church Treasurer and General Counsel Stanley R. Rader's pad in Tucson. In just one year, the lagniappe of church VIPs totaled more than $1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Propheteering? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Atheletics: The Indoor Ath letic Building is open until 9:30 pm. Monday-Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

...from Iraq, with which the Saudis share 400 miles of a common but ill-defined desert border, enormous oil wealth and little else. Iraq, which is expected to surpass Iran in oil production by the mid-1980s is a power of the future. But even today, the radical Ba'ath regime in Baghdad has nearly three times the air capability of the Saudis, more than twice as many tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters, and five times as many men under arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The Desert Superstate | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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