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Another task Bazargan faces is securing for his provisional regime the power still held by the shadowy Islamic Revolutionary Council. This secretive group, which is believed to be composed of high-ranking Shi'ite leaders and a few civilians and led by Khomeini, amounts to a parallel government, one that has not always bothered to let Bazargan know what it is doing. The Prime Minister was embarrassed last week to learn that without his knowledge, four more of the Shah's generals had been executed after being convicted in a secret tribunal authorized by the council. Worse...
...equipment can be hazardous," Mendez said yesterday. "We have to tumble on strip mats because there are no regulation floor exercise mats. The uneven parallel bars are dangerous and the balance beam is terrible," he added...
...knows the spouse. George's wife has been dead a year when the play opens, and George still grieves. yet he meets and marries a young divorcee with whom he has rapidly fallen in love, much to his won surprise. George, in many ways, represents Simon, who faced a parallel situation when he abruptly married actress Marsha Mason some time after his first wife's death. The girl in the play is loving and supportive-- and therein lies the problem. Obviously, George cannot deny his first wife's existence. The fact that his new wife understands his compulsive comparison...
Behind him, Teng left a state of near euphoria among many political and business leaders, excited about the "parallel interests" of China and the U.S. that his triumphant tour seemed to have illuminated. But some Sinologists, including Harvard's John Fairbanks, dean of U.S. China watchers, were already warning that this euphoria might prove dangerous...
...with Harvard defenseman Mitch Olson off for high-sticking, Nethery found Tredway covered and let go a slapshot of his own from the left point that parallel-parked into the lower right corner...