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...Samsam Mohamed just wants a good place to raise her family. It was what she prayed for when she and her husband Hussein fled war-scarred Somalia in 1991; what she dreamed of a decade ago, when they left a crowded refugee camp in Kenya to immigrate to the U.S.; and what she thought she had found when they settled in a five-bedroom house in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain, Ga. Then, in the fall of 2000, when Mohamed, 39, broke her leg and was unable to work and help pay the rent, the family's security seemed...
Hussein was skeptical, but Samsam loaded the kids in a rental car and headed north. Soon after she arrived in Portland, a social worker told her there were vacant houses in nearby Lewiston. "Do they have a school there?" Mohamed asked. "A medical doctor? Groceries?" They did. "Then I'll go," she said...
...week's end the roundup had netted more than 500 suspects, including two of Bakhtiar's cousins, Abbas Qoli Bakhtiar and Samsam Bakhtiar, and the Shah's former Health Minister, Anoushiravan Pouyan. The closed-door trial began on Saturday at the Military Revolutionary Tribunal in Tehran. Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the hard-lining president of the Supreme Court, had previously announced that "the plotters are facing the death penalty." There seemed little doubt that his grim threat would be carried out with the same judicial severity that sent 42 other Iranians to their death last week...
...SAMSAM! she calls. samsam! she hears. And then a bright hilltop away she spots him. He knows she's calling. He stops to listen and his zooming face is the face of a small boy who has blamed his thumb with his own hammer. He tells Girl the obedient to come and they disappear miserably into the next small valley. Cast out of Eden over a little misunderstanding. And the angel has not a flaming sword but only love to offer them. As she starts barefoot after them, old Alfred whines and the angel tells him "Bad karma Alfred...
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