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When Lorne Michaels left the show after five seasons, along with what was left of the original cast and writing staff, the show lost not only its keenness but its momentum. An interregnum presided over by a talent coordinator who was referred to as the "Ayatullah Doumanian" may have been television's most public and widely publicized embarrassment since My Mother the Car. From 1981 to 1985, Producer Dick Ebersol got the show back on a firmer, though slicker, course from which Eddie Murphy busted loose, as did his pal Joe Piscopo. Then Ebersol left, and Michaels, with...
...assault was hardly unexpected. For the past two years the Iranian army has launched a major rainy-season offensive across the marshlands of Al Huwaiza, north of the Iraqi city of Basra on the Shatt al Arab waterway. This year, on the anniversary of the day the Ayatullah Khomeini took power in 1979, the Iranians struck again. In the past, superior Iraqi armor and air power have repulsed waves of often youthful Iranian invaders. This time Iranian troops undertook a surprise offensive farther south, enabling Iran to claim at least a momentary psychological victory in the 5 1/2-year-old...
...Saudi scheme has already created a rift between the poor producers and the rich ones. In Iran, Ayatullah Khomeini's government last week condemned the Saudi plan as "an imperialist conspiracy." Meanwhile, the oil ministers of Mexico and Venezuela teamed up for a road show to promote peace among the petropowers. One stop was Egypt, which has reportedly taken a step toward cooperation by quietly lowering its production...
...company got an unexpected break last week. Chevron said that after three years of negotiations, Iran had finally agreed to pay the company $115 million for property confiscated during the 1979 revolution. That gives hope to the twelve other oil firms that are still haggling with the Ayatullah Khomeini's government...
...charge was also leveled by Agca: during a visit to Iran in 1980, he said, he learned that Moscow was trying to pressure the government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to kill some or all of the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran. "This time (Agca has) gone beyond his usual fantasies," fumed a spokesman at the Soviet embassy in Rome. "This is madness. It is provocation...