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...later years Paris became a home to exiles from North Africa, including the deposed Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella. Among the Iranian exiles who found refuge there in the 1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...
Last week's crowd, which numbered nearly 2,500, was gathered for the Gerald R. Ford Museum's Humor and the Presidency Symposium in Grand Rapids, likened by Comedian Pat Paulsen to the "Ayatullah Khomeini Symposium on the Sexual Revolution." The convocation, which included a comedy show and a banquet, marks the fifth anniversary of the museum where the Ford Administration's documents are stored -- "in a Dixie cup," according to Paulsen. "It's very exciting here," he said, "if you happen to be a monk." Among those joining the three days of discussions and routines: Art Buchwald, Robert Klein...
IRAN AIR. In July 1983 a jumbo jet bound from Shiraz in southwestern Iran to Tehran was hijacked with 386 passengers aboard by six Iranians opposed to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. After diverting the plane to Paris, Massoud Rajavi, an exiled leader of the mujahedin opposition to Khomeini, encouraged the hijackers to surrender. One inducement: they would be tried in French courts instead of being deported to Iran. No passengers were harmed...
...seizures came as speculation grew that the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was readying its long-awaited "final offensive." During the week, Iran launched a new ground attack across the Iraqi border in the north and used frogmen to sabotage an Iraqi offshore radar station...
...problems, Iran under the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seems increasingly confident and active. Earlier this month Tehran persuaded its partners in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit oil production and thus push up the price. Last week it received two high-level envoys from Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most influential power broker in the Arab world, who called the alliance between the two countries "invulnerable." Now Iran is negotiating with France for the return of $1 billion in Iranian funds that were frozen by Paris after the Ayatullah came to power...