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...Prince Karim Aga Kahn '58, leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims, met with advisory committees from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) yesterday to discuss the use of an $11.5 million grant he made to the two universities last April...
...Kurdish rebels. Scattered skirmishes took place elsewhere in the region inhabited by 4 million Iranian Kurds, who for centuries have been seeking independence, or at least a measure of autonomy. After a tribunal ordered the execution of 36 Kurds for "counterrevolutionary crimes," a Kurdish political leader, Karim Hessami, warned the government: "From now on, for every Kurd executed, we shall punish one of the Islamic guards in our captivity...
...retained an interest in the sport; he occasionally watched soccer matches on TV during his four-month exile in Neauphlele-Château, outside Paris, in 1978-79. He attended Koranic school in Khomein, and was later sent to Arak to study under a well-known Islamic scholar, Abdul Karim Haeri. In 1920, when Haeri moved to Qum and established the famed Madresseh Faizieh, a center of Islamic learning, Ruhollah went with him. Except for his years in exile, Khomeini has lived and taught there ever since...
Yazdi wasted no time in wielding a new broom at the Foreign Ministry; his first act was to accept the resignation of four deputy ministers appointed by his predecessor, Karim Sanjabi, who resigned two weeks ago. The White House is eager to learn whom Yazdi will name as a replacement for the Shah's longtime, high-living ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. In Zahedi's absence, the spokesman for the Iranian embassy has been Yazdi's articulate son-in-law, Shahriar Rouhani, 29, who temporarily put aside his doctoral studies in physics at Yale to serve...
...Prince Karim Aga Khan '58, leader of 20 million Ismaili muslims, didn't think new buildings in Islamic countries reflected Islamic traditions, so this week he donated $11.5 million to promote research in Islamic architecture...