Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sadly, the guerrillas also fight vehemently among themselves. The Soviet invasion has sparked friction between ethnic Tajiks and ethnic Pushtuns and thrown gasoline on centuries-old feuds between Shi'ite Muslims and Sunni Muslims, and between pro-Iranian Shi'ites and independent Shi'ites. The guerrilla movement is thus fragmented into hundreds of units organized along village lines, each loosely affiliated with one of the six major resistance groups. Based in Pakistan, the leaders of most of those groups are quite unable to control events at the front. The divisions are so deep, moreover, that...
MIDDLE EASTERNERS. In 1970, 20,000 Iranians lived in L.A. Today's colony is close to 200,000, the great majority political refugees who have fled their country's revolutionary turmoil. Many more are Jews, concentrated in southern Beverly Hills: there, over bins of dates in greengrocers, signs are printed in English, Farsi and Hebrew. In Beverly Hills elementary schools, one in six children is Iranian. Some American parents worry that their children's education is suffering as teachers slow their lessons to accommodate the Farsi speakers. But one Iranian mother retorts, "When we bought their house and raised...
Most did not come to forge a better life, exactly, but to avoid death by Islamic firing squad. Ghassem Tehrani, who is editor of an Iranian community newspaper, could not find work in Paris or London. He is unhappy in L.A. "You are too much money-minded here. All of us want to go back," he declares. If it were not for his two sons of Iranian draft age (14 and 16), he claims the family would return. But Tehrani's boys would not fare well in Iran in any case. "I don't think they know enough Farsi...
...hiding places in West Beirut. But a variety of Lebanese groups are also sniping at the Israelis. The Lebanese National Resistance Front, an underground organization composed of leftists sympathetic to the P.L.O., claimed responsibility last week for the Chouf ambush. In the far south, near the Israeli border, pro-Iranian Shi'ite militiamen have carried out repeated attacks against Israeli forces...
...ceremonies, issuing a ringing and internationally publicized decrial of the West's decline. His two successors were scarcely less illustrious: Helmut Schmidt, then Chancellor of West Germany, and Cyrus Vance, who had only weeks before left the Carter Administration in protest of its handling of the Iranian hostage crisis...