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...Greek sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a woman called May Elias Mansur, a known terrorist, flew on the TWA Boeing 727 from Cairo to Athens Wednesday morning. The plane went on to Rome, and the bomb exploded during its return flight from Rome to Athens Wednesday afternoon...
...Mansur Farhang and John Hosein Metavelli, in an article last August in The Progressive, manage to have their cake and eat it too. On the one hand, they wrote. Khomeini "began to build a vast network of coercion and patronage to secure his rule." On the other hand, they described anarchy in the streets and a failure of exported Islamic revolution abroad...
Qatar, making its first Olympic appearance, boasts a number of young, exciting players. The most dangerous man on the field is striker Mansur "The Falcon" Muftah, who scored 26 goals last year for Reain in Qatar's First Division. Their main disadvantage, however, may be their large number of players completely without experience at international play except for last year's qualifying rounds...
...Washington, and we have asked the FBI to help us. Some $19 million was spent by the ex-Shah's secret police [SAVAK] in 1976-77. The FBI wants to know whether the Alien Registration Act has been violated, and we want to know what SAVAK Chief Mansur Rafizadeh did with $8 million in 1976. There's no record of how it was spent or who got it. Another $11 million was transferred to the embassy during the imperial couple's mid-November visit to Washington in 1977. We gave the FBI considerable evidence on both cases...
...Iranian parliament considered a bill that would allow members of the U.S. armed forces in Iran to be tried in their own military courts. Khomeini was arrested again: this time he was held for a half a year. upon his second release, he was brought before Premier Hassan Mansur, who tried to convince Khomeini that he should apologize and drop his opposition to the government. Khomeini refused. In fury, Mansur slapped Khomeini's face. The Ayatullah did not blink. Two weeks later, Hassan Mansur was assassinated on his way to parliament. Four members of the Fedayan Islam were later...