Word: mab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grenadians last week were dismayed to learn of what seemed a ham-fisted exercise of Yankee power: a unit of heavily armed U.S. troops closed and occupied a thriving Roman Catholic community house that a sergeant says had been "a center for Communist propaganda." Mab, a woman who worked at the facility, is upset. "It was a relief when the Americans first came," Mab says, "but this moving of us isn't so nice...
...mountain village of Jamaran, two miles north of the capital, the corridors of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's modest house buzzed like a beehive. Turbaned mullahs, ostensibly come to congratulate the Ayatullah on the anniversary of Mab'ath, the day God chose Muhammad as his Prophet, seized the occasion to denounce their enemies and advance their respective causes. The byzantine scene prompted one local observer to remark, "The place reeks of conspiracy...