Word: ayatullah
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...clear message to the regime of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini that the episode at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran had still not been resolved as far as the Reagan Administration was concerned. The six-day hijacking had come to a dramatic end early last week when three Iranian security officers disguised as a physician and cleaning crew slipped on board the grounded Airbus and rescued nine hostages, including two Americans, who were found tied to their seats. Four Arabic-speaking hijackers, thought to be linked to the same pro-Khomeini Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist groups that some...
What he meant was, in part, that America's manhood was back. By his account, the Administration of Jimmy Carter and, he always added, of Walter Mondale, had stood for weakness and inefFectuality, for letting foreigners like the Ayatullah kick us around and imprison our people. The theme of manhood ran deeply through the campaign. The U.S. had lost the long war in Viet Nam; the nation seemed smaller and diminished in the world: unmanned. Reagan restored a sense of what was good, what was virtuous, about being a man. A New York Times/CBS News poll showed that...
...things than the survival of rulers who might not respect human rights as much as Americans would like. In Iran, Reagan said, the fall of the Shah, which happened while the Career Administration was in power, had been followed by the rule of a "maniacal fanatic," obviously meaning the Ayatullah Khomeini. In the Philippines now, Reagan continued, the regime of Ferdinand Marcos might not "look good to us from the standpoint right now of democratic rights," but the alternative to Marcos might be the seizure of power by a Communist movement and that would hardly be any gain for democracy...
...east of Baghdad. Iraq announced that the invaders had been driven back. Whatever the real out come, the battle marked a resumption of a ground war that had been stalled since last February. Nonetheless, the encounter did not seem to be the "final offensive" that Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has been threatening to launch for the past eight months...
...said flatly, "I can't discuss that." The main problem is that the culprits are not easy to identify, let alone punish. Most experts believe the name Islamic Jihad is a sort of catchword used by several fanatical Shi'ite Muslim groups inspired by Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and affiliated with Iranian Revolutionary Guards based in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The terrorists seem to be linked to the ruling Shi'ite hierarchy in Iran or to a segment of it. Because the groups operate out of an area that is controlled by Syria...