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Yet while the middle class is able to sidestep some of the regime's strictures in the privacy of their homes, the 150,000-strong Revolutionary Guard still enforces a strict public acceptance of dress regulations, particularly for women. All women, Iranians and foreigners alike, have to dress in Islamic...
The activities of the Revolutionary Guards and neighborhood Islamic committees as sentinels of the new morality have been curtailed somewhat, and Khomeini has personally forbidden arbitrary searches of private homes. Even so, these watchdogs have considerable power. On one recent evening on the promenade at Bandar Anzali, a popular weekend...
Recent disclosures of Iranian efforts to make clandestine purchases of American weaponry and spare parts demonstrate that Iran's condemnation of the U.S. does not prevent it from coveting American technology. These covert attempts to secure what Iran's bellicose anti-Western policies prevent it from obtaining openly suggest one...
Christianity faces another external challenge, from Islam. South of the Sahara, Christian-Muslim relations generally are good, and the tension at the moment is mainly that of competition in seeking converts. In Cameroon, during one of several meetings he arranged with Muslim chieftains, John Paul addressed them as "brothers," and...
Since his arrival three days earlier--it was his second visit to Beirut in less than a week--Waite said, he had met with the kidnapers twice at secret locations in the city. Waite said he was satisfied "beyond all doubt" that he was dealing with the real kidnapers, believed...