Word: khans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen jets flew out of the northwest, dropped parachute flares to deflect heat-seeking missiles, and then began their bombing runs. Mujahedin 12.7-mm and 14.5-mm heavy machine guns opened fire from the surrounding mountains, shooting in wide arcs across the sky. At the guerrilla base, Commander Khan Emir and about 20 of his men stood defiantly on an open knoll, firing at the jets with AK-47 assault rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers. Other nearby guerrilla bases have small numbers of American-made Stinger antiaircraft missiles, but the mujahedin at Spina Bora have not received...
Still, the movie was popular enough to tag the property as a solid box- office attraction. And gradually, the films' creators managed to beam the series up to competence, even to emotional resonance. In 1982 The Wrath of Khan brought Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) back from the executive junk heap to conquer both an old nemesis and a mid-life crisis. In 1984 The Search for Spock resurrected Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) for a reunion with Kirk that was tender enough to make a Vulcan almost cry. Now comes The Voyage Home -- and a radical, canny shift of moods. This...
...Said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard N.Frye: "Fleming and Handlin found [Brinkley's] worktoo journalistic...
...face of the opposition, Spence halted Brinkley's review, the sources said. "If Handlin and Fleming turn their thumbs down on someone, you can forget it; he's not going through," said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard Frye, a History Department member...
Included on the guest list were Sens. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Supreme Court Justices Harry A. Blackmun '29 and William J. Brennan, Gov. Michael Dukakis, Saudi Arabia's top oil man, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and the Aga Khan '58. Members of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, Radcliffe Trustees, several prominent faculty members, Bok's children and selected alumni were also invited...