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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arrested while vacationing with his family in Paris in September 1991, Hendi admitted seeking the visas but said he had done so innocently: Hossein Sheikhattar, a senior aide to the telecommunications minister, had asked him to help two friends enter France by inviting them as guests of Syfax. Hendi's lawyer, Jerome Herce, insists that his client's efforts to obtain visas "prove nothing," since the two alleged killers actually entered France on a different set of visas. But the prosecutor claims this fact has "no effect on the charges of complicity" in the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

Bruguiere believes that he has established a final link between the killing and Tehran in the person of Gholam Hossein Shoorideh Chirazi Nejad. A well- traveled Iranian businessman with high-level government connections, Shoorideh prevailed upon a visiting Swiss businessman to help two friends get visas by having his company invite them as guests. One of the "friends" was Nasser Ghasmi Nejad, whose real purpose was apparently to rendezvous with Azadi and shepherd him back to Tehran. Shoorideh and Nejad thus joined the list of six alleged co-conspirators, including Azadi, Boyerahmadi, Sheikhattar and Edipsoy, who are to be tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

Director Robert Hossein, who conceived the show, also mounted the first version of the musical hit Les Miserables, though in static, arena-style tableaux rather than the Broadway staging. Radio City executive producer Scott Sanders likens Jesus to Les Miz. Says he: "These shows offer pain, despair and suffering followed by hope, ending in a joyous feeling of power and faith. That is quality family entertainment." With both Jesus and Les Miz, Hossein has not so much told a story as relied on audiences to know it already. Jesus neither starts with the birth of its hero nor ends with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Story Ever Sold | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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