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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well-represented in the tournament, the Khan clan maintained its omnipresence in the results of Yusuf and Aziz. Yusuf Khan beat Peter Bostwick in the Grand Masters tournament final. Aziz, loser to Desaulniers in the semis of the main draw, topped Alger for third place...

Author: By Tiina M. Bougas, | Title: Desaulniers Cops Boston Open Title | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...lobbying began early in the war. The Soviet Ambassador to Iran, Vladimir Vinogradov, called on Banisadr and assured him that Moscow was opposed to Iraq's invasion. To convince the skeptical Iranian President, he gave Banisadr a transcript of talks held in Moscow the day before between Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy Prime Minister, and Boris Ponomarev, a secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. In the discussion, Ponomarev told Aziz that Moscow did not endorse the Iraqi invasion and demanded an immediate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: Choosing Up Sides | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...help explain its case abroad, the Baghdad government already had sent Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow and Paris. He assured the Soviets, who apparently were as much surprised by the outbreak of war as the Americans, that Baghdad's goals were limited, but he also pressed unsuccessfully for fast military resupply. Like Washington, Moscow was quick to proclaim its neutrality-understandable since it could not afford to offend either party. For the Soviets to openly back the Iranian regime would be to go against their ties and friendship treaty with Iraq. To back Iraq could mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Persian Gulf | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing told Tariq Aziz that the crisis was a "bilateral affair," best solved by the region's Islamic states. An Elysée spokesman later said that no spare parts for French weapons in the Iraqi arsenal would be forthcoming while the fighting continued. But he said that France would honor a $1.6 billion arms agreement with Iraq involving the sale of 60 Mirage F-l jet fighters, as well as tanks, antitank weapons, radar, guided missiles and patrol boats-all part of an Iraqi attempt to diversify its weapons inventory away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Persian Gulf | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Sadly, the growing extremism in the West Bank has isolated or intimidated longtime advocates of communal peace between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. In his quiet Ramallah apartment, Aziz Shahadeh, a lawyer since 1936, reflects on recent changes in the two communities. "I always thought that there was a silent majority of moderates among us, as there was among the Jews," he says. "Now the extremists are so powerful on both sides that the moderates have hushed their voices. Some day, there will be a catastrophe here, a real massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Anger of the Palestinians | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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