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...chilly gray dawn was just breaking over Tehran as Mousa Khiabani, 35, operational commander of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist guerrilla organization seeking to overthrow the Iranian government, was moving to a new hideout. With him were his pregnant wife Azar Reza'i and Ashraf Rabi'i, the wife of Paris-based Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi, and the Rajavis' year-old son. When Khiabani stepped out of his bulletproof Peugeot, a plainclothes Islamic Guard spotted him and radioed for help. Within minutes hundreds of government security forces converged on the scene...
...well-organized underground movement founded in 1965, the Mujahedin was active in the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. But it later split with the clergy-dominated regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Over the past eight months it has launched a bloody campaign of insurrection that culminated in the assassination of President Mohammed Ali Raja'i and many other top government figures. In the wake of severe government reprisals, Mujahedin activities have tapered off. The Mujahedin say they have merely switched tactics from assassinating political leaders to attacking government security forces. Government sources claim that, in fact, the rebels...
...first press reports made it seem plausible: another Bay of Pigs was in the offing. Amid the forests of the Florida Everglades, where Cuban exiles had plotted to oust Fidel Castro, a new counterrevolutionary army had been born. This time the rebels were Nicaraguan expatriates mobilizing to overthrow their country's quasi-Marxist regime...
...whose family he had ruined. Almost equally malign was a Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Coughlin, whose ardent and often anti-Semitic broadcasts from his Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich., brought him a vast following (he regularly received 80,000 letters a week). To overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest joined forces with Dr. Townsend, the pension crusader, and one of Long's nastier henchmen, the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith, to launch the Union party. Their puppet nominee for the presidency: Populist Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota...
...quoted as having said: "The confrontation is unavoidable, and it will take place . . . I wanted to reach [it] in a natural way, when almost all social groups were with us. But I made a mistake because I thought we would keep it up longer and then we would overthrow these parliaments and [local government] councils." Walesa cautioned union leaders at the meeting against declaring publicly that confrontation was inevitable, but told them that they should say, "We love you, we love socialism and the party and, of course, the Soviet Union . . . We should do our work and wait...