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...asked several of Iran's Muslim neighbors, including Pakistan, for help. Fresh offers of assistance poured in. The Shah passed the word that he was willing to leave the U.S., leading Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ?who had denounced the seizure of the hostages as "a disgrace to Islam"?to offer to send his private jet to fly the ailing monarch to Cairo. Retired Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali announced he would be willing to exchange himself for the prisoners. Said Ali: "I'm a Muslim, and I am known and loved in Iran." Intrigued, State Department officials suggested that...
...precisely 2 p.m., the first convict was brought forward, and the show began. Since he was over 45, he was, by law, exempt from whipping. Instead, his face was painted black-considered a great humiliation in Islam-and then he was led off to prison. Dressed only in white shorts, knotted in front, the next convict was fastened to the scaffold. He was the first prisoner's son. Both men had been found guilty of running a brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide...
...plot follows Arthur, Jimmy, Julia, and Hall from their childhood world of church, home and family, through the Civil Rights Movement, to Europe and Africa, through flirtings with Islam or drugs and finally to the mostly white professional world in which they begin to build their futures. All the characters seem bound to each other either by love, blood, or the church, reflecting a perception about black life that Baldwin began fleshing out several novels ago, but all must grapple with some personal demons before they can enjoy their love for one another...
...suffered. If anything, they took advantage of the people who fought and suffered." Khomeini also charged that the left had been created by the Americans "to launch slanders against us, to sabotage and destroy us." It was of no consequence, he said, that Iran would not be called an Islamic Democratic Republic, since the "word Islam does not need adjectives such as democratic. Precisely because Islam is everything, it means everything." He defended the paramount role that the clergy will play under the new constitution: "Since people love the clergy, have faith in the clergy, it is right that...
...regardless of what outsiders think. "If you foreigners do not understand, too bad for you," he said at one point. "It's none of your business. If some Persians don't understand it, too bad for them. It means they have not understood Islam...