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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What will happen in post-Khomeini Iran depends on the interplay of such political forces as the clergy, the military, and some of the opposition forces. The Left, which is now fragmented, might unite to influence the succession after Khomeini, just as it did in the struggle to overthrow the Shah. Some clergymen who have coexisted with Khomeni without totally or irreversibly identifying with his despotism may also act, particularly if this crisis degenerates into a civil...

Author: By Sepehr Zabih, | Title: Trying to Understand Iran | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...this had not even begun to be addressed before we got to school," said Carolyn Craig, a first-year divinity student who is confined to a wheelchair. "After a whole semester of addressing the issue continually, these past three weeks are the first time that we have seen anything happen." Added Craig, "I find these changes to be an effort, but it is only a start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Div School to Aid Handicapped | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...What happens in theater happens right there. It is not a record of past actions but an ongoing phenomenon which at its best will grab the audience and make them live it as well. A movie deals in what has already happened. The theater's realm is potential: what may happen, to the story, to the actors, to you. Properly used, the physical proximity of play and playgoer can be exploited to create heights of humor and terror, tension and relief, of which no other medium is capable. Theater is dangerous. That is its strength...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Why Bother | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...scandal couldn't happen to a moredeserving crew. For the moment, the strongesttemptation is simply to watch them shooting eachother where they sit," Womack added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Offer Grim Assessment | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...Tehran. Though Reagan announced at his news conference that there would be no more arms deliveries, he expressed a rather wan hope that the U.S. could stay in sympathetic touch with so-called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with the "Black House" were "Satan-oriented," and cried, "May God get rid of the insurgents in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tower of Babel | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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