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When the talk in Tehran is not of the war, it is about Khomeini's successor. The Ayatullah now plays no visible role in public life. By most accounts, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 52, the pragmatic Speaker of the Parliament, is the leading candidate to take over. At this point...
Other changes have made journalists more willing to broach such previously unmentionable subjects. A succession of public scandals involving politicians in the '60s and '70s (including Senator Edward Kennedy's car accident at Chappaquiddick, which resulted in the death of a female companion, and Representative Wilbur Mills' drunken shenanigans at...
The descent to Khost's dirt airstrip is gut wrenching, a series of dizzying circles, jigs and S-turns as once again the planes pop flares in rapid succession. Last week Soviet-built government transports delivered 60 journalists from India, the Soviet bloc and the West on a propaganda tour...
-- The expenditure of the entire movie industry's supply of blood squibs in a succession of brutal encounters between people whose quarrels are either preposterously or obscurely motivated.
Baker said the defense would seek to prove that Goetz fired five times in rapid succession. Police have said that Goetz told officers he shot all four youths then turned back to Cabey and shot him again, saying, "You don't look so bad, here's another."