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...Tehran, tens of thousands took to the rooftops chanting "Allahu akbar" (God is great). Automobile drivers honked their horns, and mosques sounded the azan, the Muslim call to prayer. As the extent of the Iraqi defeat became known, Iranian leaders declared that they would stop at nothing, including the invasion of Iraq, in order to achieve two objectives: the downfall of Saddam Hussein and the collection of huge war reparations. Tehran has been telling Arab governments that Iran has a right to square accounts with an aggressor that has inflicted more than $100 billion in damage, killed and maimed tens...
...Colonel Azan was sent to Harvard by the French Government at the request of President A. Lawrence Lowell just before the United States entered the war. Thrice cited for gallantry in combat, he was an officer of the Legion of Honor and a holder of the Croix de Guerre...
Ceremonies will be held today at Shannon Hall for the presentation of a portrait of Colonel Paul A. J. Azan, French war hero who trained more than 1,200 Harvard students for combat in World...
Personal recollections of Harvard by Rene Doumic, the first Hyde lecturer in 1897, by Andre Tardiou, lecturer in 1908, and by General Panl Azan, the head of the French military mission in 1917, open the volume. The succeeding pages are devoted to scholary essays on different phases of the cultural exchanges between Harvard and France, both in the past and in the present. No attempt is made to treat the subject exhaustively or systematically. For example, the line of descent from the Mediseval University of Parls to seventeenth century Harvard is not described, nor is there any discussion...
Members of the University who served in the R. O. T. C. when the Colonel was at Harvard, are cordially invited to meet General Nivelle and Colonel Azan at President 'Lowell's house this afternoon at three o'clock...