Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ackerman said the recent election of Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr as President of Iran was "one of the most hopeful events in Iran" because he was the only person with leftist views in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's inner circle and is working to diffuse the hostage situation...
...Kremlin-decreed coup in Kabul. He ordered a cutback in Soviet diplomatic personnel in Cairo, severed all ties with the pro-Moscow regimes in Syria and South Yemen, and announced that Egypt would provide training camps and military assistance for the Afghan rebels. Sadat's Defense Minister, Kamal Hassan Ali, disclosed that the Egyptian and U.S. air forces had conducted joint exercises in recent weeks, to prepare for a contingency that might require the Americans to use Egypt's facilities. Among the U.S. aircraft deployed for the exercises were two E-3A Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control...