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study and teaching, inclduing almost 15 years of exile, and now a year of adulation and power in his homeland, the Ayatullah has been wholly consistent???and totally unbending. Why not? In his own mind he speaks not for himself but for God, whose precepts never change. Says Richard Cottam of the University of Pittsburgh, one of the few American scholars who have held long conversations with Khomeini: "The trouble in talking to him is that you always run up against a wall called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Portrait of an Ascetic Despot | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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