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Olepi, Ahbleza's father, is the tribe's greatest warrior; Ogle is the tribe's greatest hunter. It is no coincidence that Ahbleza saves the infant Tonweya, Ogle's son, from burning himself. Just as Olepi's life parallels Ogle's, Ahbleza's will parallel Tonweya's Despite the fact that Ahbleza is several years older, the two boys become 'brother-friends', and like their fathers, both are marked for distinction. Tonweya becomes a great scout while Ahbleza strives to become leader of the Mahto band, and, eventually, the entire Teton (Sioux) Nation...
...Tabriz, Abadan, and other places, local komitehs have already begun rendering decisions on everything from whether brothels can reopen (answer: no) to the prices grocery shops can charge. Kani, who operates out of a makeshift office in Tehran's parliament building, says that the authority of this parallel administration will now be consolidated by "drastically cutting" the number of local groups and by bringing the rest under the direct control of the central Komiteh in Tehran. The Komiteh will also foster "understanding of the Islamic revolutionary objectives" by propagandizing through television and radio programs, recorded cassettes and a newspaper...
...Komiteh, Bazargan charged, had become a parallel government that not only interfered with his struggling administration, but was tarnishing the revolution. "They persecute us, they arrest people, they issue orders, they oppose our appointments," Bazargan said, speaking with the indignation with which he formerly criticized the Shah. "They have turned my day into night." If the Komiteh is not curbed, he warned, "we would have no alternative but to resign...
...Moslem revivalism in the revolution. But Robert Wesson, a political scientist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, sees it "not so much as medievalism as a rejection of foreign intrusion. They are not reversing modernization, but giving it a sounder basis in Iranian institutions." Wesson detects a parallel between Islam in Iran and Roman Catholicism in Poland. "There, in a country in a subrevolutionary situation, the Catholic Church is enormously popular because it is the counter to the government - it is the refuge for freedom. It has become the umbrella for all man ner of movements...
...network of alumni put to work for the capital drive. "A lot of pros and our colleagues in the Ivy League think we're crazy, but we feel this will simplify the drive for our alumni--there won't be any 'double-ask' and we won't have two parallel organizations," Clifton comments...