Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants to defuse Iranian radicalism, it needs to rethink its military options entirely. "If the American aim was to put a military presence in the gulf in order to deter Iranian action, it was an entirely misplaced decision," says Group Captain David Bolton, director of the British government-funded Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies in London. Rather than shows of force, Bolton counsels a gradual withdrawal of U.S. warships from the area, "while quiet diplomacy U.S. allies seeks an international...
Then came the hypnotic voice of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 87, still the country's supreme leader. Speaking in fierce whispers over nationwide radio, Khomeini first lashed out at the "inept and spineless" Saudi Arabian royal family. But he placed the blame for the bloody deaths in Mecca squarely on the U.S., still the "Great Satan" in the eyes of the fevered Iranian nation, and vowed vengeance. Promised Khomeini: "God willing, at the opportune time we shall deal with...
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Nearly all Iranian Moslems belong to the Shiite minority. Shiites have been at odds for 1300 years with the Sunni sect, which the Saudi royal family follows and which makes up 85 percent of the world's 850 million Moslems...
...serve as metaphors for nuclear disaster; Phantom, a quasi- operatic retelling by Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats) of the much- filmed monster-meets-girl melodrama; and another revival from the heyday of the Broadway tunesmiths, Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, in a consistently lively rendition by the Royal Shakespeare Company that nonetheless will need star quality recasting to prosper on Broadway...