Word: mansourism
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...Mansour Farhang, who spoke about the lack of human rights in Iran, had to be whisked away through the tunnel under Langdell Library by Harvard policemen after his hour-long lecture...
...Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour...
Only one Palestinian during my two weeks of conversations suggested a solution to the Palestinian issue that did not envisage violence or coercion on a massive scale. Mansour al-Shawwa, a Gaza businessman who is also the mayor's son, still believes "the Arabs should declare peace with Israel and propose normalization." His reasoning: within three to five years, Israel would lose its "siege mentality," thereby leading to a new relationship between Arabs and Jews. But for Mansour al-Shawwa, the advocacy of peace has its hazards. Because of several terrorist attempts on his life, he is now protected...
...Budapest but mobs in Tehran. Sandy Socolow, executive producer of the CBS Evening News, calls the article "a kind of diatribe"; Stan Swinton, vice president of the Associated Press, thinks it a "cheap shot" for the professor to hide behind a fake byline (he turns out to be Mansour Farhang, who teaches government at California State in Sacramento). Harder to dismiss is the judgment of Professor James A. Bill of the University of Texas, author of The Politics of Iran: he writes in Foreign Affairs that Iran coverage over the years has been "consistently sparse, superficial and distorted," particularly...
...could do little else. Only one of Saud's sons, Prince Mansour, is still around the palace, and his powers are largely ceremonial. The King's last personal armed force is being merged into the army. The King, whose cunning is legendary, may use his fortune, estimated at more than $100 million, to buy out his pro-Feisal kinsmen. The outlook was perhaps best forecast by an Arab journalist: "I see ahead a period of intrigue and suspicion, in which a passing word from a harem woman might take the sleep for nights from the eyes of important...