Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equipment. Both the Soviet Union and France are keeping Baghdad well supplied, while the Khomeini government cannot replace or repair the U.S. equipment it inherited from the Shah. Many of Iran's naval vessels have either been lost or are out of service because of a shortage of spare parts. According to Washington analysts, Iran now has only 25 working F-4 fighter-bombers out of a prewar total of 190; just 30 operable F-5 fighters out of 166; and five or ten serviceable F-14s of 77 purchased by the Shah...
...mullacracy extends the same harsh treatment to independent-minded individuals. In 1982 Khomeini betrayed few qualms about having his former right-hand man and Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, executed; last July, when his fiercest hanging judge, Ayatullah Mohammed Gilani, asked permission to spare 340 penitent political prisoners, the Ayatullah overruled him and sent them instantly to their deaths. The government continues to interpret "counterrevolution" broadly enough to cover a multitude of so-called sins. Homosexuals, drug dealers and unfaithful wives are all targets for the firing squads. A woman who neglects to wear her head scarf may find herself thrown...
...spare time Zimmermann built harpsichords, crafted stained glass windows and played the flute. "He was a truly talented man," Woollacott said...
...allowed me to buy him food. He also makes it a rule never to bum cigarettes from his friends--he gets them from strangers or finds them, half-smoked, on the sidewalk. His heroes are Jack Kerouac, Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan, and his favorite joke is "Could you spare a quarter? I have to get my mother out of the pawnshop...
...watches. There was only one agent selling tickets and each customer was taking about five minutes. It was going to be tough for all of them to make the flight. Now visibly upset, the woman spilled out her story. She had gotten her ticket with plenty of time to spare and gone up to the departure area where there had been some confusion, and a lot of people milling about. She had been holding her ticket inside her passport, but when she got to the gate it was gone. Quickly she retraced her steps looking for the missing piece...