Word: jaleh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jaleh Poorooshasb '80 is an Iranian student who holds a visa for permanent residency in the United States. The State Department granted her the visa, which will allow her to stay in this country indefinitely, because she has relatives who are U.S. citizens. Poorooshasb is one of a number of students exempted from President Carter's "hard-line" policy of not renewing Iranian students' visas when they expire. Carter's policy of denying entry to the U.S. to Iranians will still indirectly affect Poorooshasb, though, for it means her parents will not be allowed to attend Commencement...
...interview, I stated that "virtually everyone I talked with had been touched--some told of relatives who had disappeared, some talked of friends and neighbors who were shot and killed during the revolution, some shared stories about incidents during the time of the revolution, for example, the massacre at Jaleh Square, the Rex Cinema fire, unprovoked attacks by the military and so on, some could and did pull open the shirt or pull up the pants and say "Look what SAVAK did to me." The point remains the same. Virtually everyone I met had been touched, physically and/or emotionally...