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...organization also elected Sameer Bhargava '95 as treasurer; Shapour T. Alam '93-94 as publicity chair; Nikhilesh M. Korgaonkar '95 as academic/political chair; Tania Kapur '94 as social chair; and Sarada Gurubhagavatula '94 as liaison chair...
...Africa, including the deposed Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella. Among the Iranian exiles who found refuge there in the 1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...
...Tehran. There the hijackers, by now mysteriously armed with revolvers and automatic pistols, declared that starting Thursday morning they would kill one French passenger every hour until the French government agreed to release five Islamic fanatics in prison since 1980 for the attempted assassination of former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in a Paris suburb...
Other Iranians in exile scorned the idea of joining him in a united front against Khomeini. In particular, Banisadr was spurned by Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister appointed by the Shah, who had also taken refuge in Paris. Bakhtiar argued, correctly, that Banisadr had helped build the Islamic Republic of Iran. Said the former Prime Minister: "What is happening to Banisadr is a direct result of what he himself created...
...week of closing its borders for four days as officials marshaled a gigantic man hunt for fugitives accused of involvement in a military plot to overthrow the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. The vengeance even spread abroad as a hit squad in Paris tried to assassinate former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar, the man many Iranians believed had masterminded the July 9 coup attempt...
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