Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American officials believe, but lack concrete proof, that the zealots in Tehran have been financing militant Iranian activities in the U.S. The key man is suspected to be Bahram Nahidian, a Georgetown rug merchant who is believed to have access to several million dollars provided by Iran. U.S. law enforcement officials think that the Iranian militant network in this country is in daily radio and telephone contact with the hard-liners in Tehran. Officials even feel that some of the Iranians have been recruited as assassins to intimidate and eliminate leaders of the anti-Khomeini Iranian community in America...
...finally beginning to take care of their hair," Mary Crosby, chief of the eight-man styling team, said as she worked on one midwestern reporter. "I hate messy hair, I just hate it," Crosby added, pointing to the pink-caped men hunkered down in front of lighted mirrors as proof of their emancipation from old-fashioned prejudices against $30 haircuts...
...father, Alejandro Ramos, 45, now a mechanic, was a carnival fighter in Puerto Rico, where he took on all comers for a penny and a bottle of 160-proof rum. When his son was eleven, the father saw that he was something special. In heavily accented English, Ramos Sr. says, "I was as sure my son is El Gallo, a brave fighting cock, as sure as I am that when the priest blesses this house, I'll win at the track the next day." He took Alex to a fight trainer in Manhattan, just before the boy turned twelve...
...character." J.S. Werner, who with Oakley helped expose the forgery, doubts that Teilhard would have risked his burgeoning scientific career with such a ruse. Gould remains convinced it was a youthful joke that succeeded so well it made a confession difficult. Says he: "The burden of proof must now rest with those who would hold Father Teilhard blameless...
Still hungry, I returned to my seat, which was behind some guy wearing a bullet-proof vest who kept yelling things I couldn't understand and throwing his arm spasmodically to the side. A crowd had gathered near my seat because Ernie (Mr. Baseball) Banks was visiting with the spectators. He's kind of a sad character now because all he does is greet people who come to watch...