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Brown, 54, is uniquely qualified for the role of power broker. He has reigned for a record seven years as speaker and self-described ayatullah of the California assembly. He is respected for a quick intelligence, a quicker tongue and long experience in mediating among competing interests. Says Jackson Campaign Manager Gerald Austin: "He's one of those people who can walk into a room full of other strong-willed political people, and everybody knows he's in charge...
...gulf, Moscow is trying to keep lines open to Iran -- in hopes, no doubt, that the U.S.S.R. will fare better with a post-Khomeini leadership than it has with the Ayatullah himself. But the Soviets are also cultivating better ties with the conservative and moderate Arab states of the region...
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia likes to remain on good terms with his neighbors. That is not easy when Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is one of them. Still & angry at the Islamic republic for provoking riots during the 1987 Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia last week broke diplomatic ties with Iran. The move followed collapse of negotiations aimed at reducing the number of Iranians who will undertake this year's pilgrimage from 150,000 to 45,000 in order to help prevent new rioting...
...hijackers and the 17 prisoners appear to share religious ties. Sixteen of the men jailed in Kuwait are Shi'ite Muslims who are thought to support Iran and its leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Hostages released from the jetliner said the gunmen often spoke in religious terms. Sherif Mahrojk Badrawi, a Kuwait Airways ticket agent in Cairo, called them "good Muslims" who "spoke to us in a very Koranic language. They were always using verses from the Koran." The hijackers are thought to belong to Hizballah, a radical Shi'ite group...
Secrecy, it seems, is everywhere at a premium. Schleicher sells to schools as well as corporations in 110 countries. The company can even boast that the Intimus 007 S is Ayatullah-proof. By converting a piece of paper into 10,000 flakes, the machine makes it impossible to reassemble shredded documents, as the Iranians did after the U.S. embassy was seized...