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...Murray Robinson, couldn't believe--or perhaps didn't want to believe--that the Crimson's Don Pompan had reached the ball before it bounced twice. Robinson knew that with the score at 4-2 in favor of Pompan in a third-set tie-breaker he had lost his grip on a match that he had begun by taking the first...
...Angel Gabriel roused him from his bed with the stern command: "Proclaim!" Rubbing his eyes, the startled Muhammad gasped, "But what shall I proclaim?" Suddenly his throat tightened as though the angel were choking him. Again came the command: "Proclaim!" And again the terrified Muhammad felt the choking grip. "Proclaim!" ordered the angel for a third time. "Proclaim in the name of the Lord, the Creator who created man from a clot of blood! Proclaim! Your Lord is most gracious. It is he who has taught man by the pen that which he does not know...
...Department, announced the signing in a firm full voice. Pens glided smoothly across the pages, and in a few minutes Carter looked up from the last signature and said, "Let's have a handshake." Applause rose again as the men came together and clasped in a three-way grip like a debating team that had just won the match...
Last week Islamic Revolutionary Courts, controlled by the Komiteh, tightened their grip on Iran's legal system, for the first time executing persons charged with nonpolitical offenses. In public trials that are expected to replace the widely protested late-night secret tribunals, the courts punished rapists, thieves and adulterers, as well as more of the SAVAK agents, police and army officers who have been their chief targets. In Tehran, four men convicted of raping an 18-year-old male university student were executed; unaccountably, the victim was given 13 lashes. In Jamshid Abad, near the Caspian coast, a married...
...Komiteh has no intention of relaxing its grip on Iran. In an interview with TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst, Mohammed Reza Mahdavi Kani, a Khomeini aide who calls himself "the Ayatullah's man for Komiteh activities," outlined a plan that would make the group and some of its 1.500 or so replicas across the country permanent features of Iran's government. In Tabriz, Abadan, and other places, local komitehs have already begun rendering decisions on everything from whether brothels can reopen (answer: no) to the prices grocery shops can charge. Kani, who operates...