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...such as the harem carriage -- a gilt coach designed with lattice windows so that women could look out discreetly -- have never traveled outside Turkey. The exhibition's most stunning item is the Topkapi Dagger, featured in the 1964 movie Topkapi. Created in the 1740s as a gift for the Shah of Persia, who was assassinated before he could take possession, it is a sword-length blade that is more a showpiece than a weapon. Who would want to bloody a knife with a hilt containing three walnut-size emeralds and a diamond-covered sheath...
Defying most Western predictions, Soviet-installed President Najibullah hung on for three years after Moscow's army pulled out. But as mujahedin forces led by Ahmad Shah Massoud marched on the capital of Kabul from the north, more and more of the government's army commanders went over to him, creating new coalitions in the field. Najibullah was forced to resign two weeks ago, and went into hiding...
...Nirav R. Shah '94, a biology major, says he enjoys his science classes but has reservations about the quality of the teaching fellows...
IRAN. Facing stalemate or defeat in the war with Iraq, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1987 personally authorized a full-scale renewal of a nuclear-bomb program that the Shah had begun. The program has survived both the end of the Iran-Iraq war and Khomeini's death; Tehran hardly even bothers to hide its intentions anymore. On Oct. 25, Sayed Ataollah Mohajerani, an Iranian Vice President, told an Islamic conference in Tehran, "Since Israel continues to possess nuclear weapons, we, the Muslims, must cooperate to produce an atom bomb, regardless of U.N. attempts to prevent proliferation...
Islamic fundamentalism also challenges U.S. interests not merely in the Middle East but as far west as Morocco, as far east as Pakistan and as far north as the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union. Fundamentalists toppled the Shah of Iran, leading to the 444-day hostage crisis, and gunned down Egypt's Anwar Sadat. So too could they dispense with the friendly rulers -- all too many of them dictators and monarchs -- upon whom Washington currently counts. Perhaps the only hope of declawing Islamic radicals is to resolve the Palestinian question, thereby denying them one of their best vehicles...