Word: surround
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sharietmadari abhors violence and avoids confrontations, and he uttered only a soft-spoken complaint two weeks ago against the constitution that grants all power to Khomeini, but that was enough to inspire a threatening Khomeini mob to surround his house and kill one of his guards. So the battle began, and within a short time Khomeini's officials had been driven from Tabriz. Khomeini has been uncertain how to fight back. At first, he tried words. In a rhetorical broadside, he castigated the rebels as "mere heathens, foreign-led agents whose dossiers are in our hands." He tried...
...September Yazdi and Vance had talked at the U.N. for four hours about military supplies for Iran and the future of U.S.-Iranian relations. Vance came away from that meeting thinking that the Bazargan government was slowly acquiring more authority over the rabble-rousing mullahs who surround Khomeini. It was a mistaken conclusion...
...three months ago. Various plotters began planning at least three separate coups after Bolivia's Congress chose Guevara to serve as interim President until an election next May. Natusch, 46, the commander of the military training school, struck first. Backed by junior officers, he dispatched a force to surround the palace, dissolved Congress and declared himself President...
...Surround these officials," advises Colo nel B.F.M. von Stahl, U.S. Army...
Demonstrators begin to trickle in to Santasoucci's farm Friday afternoon, meeting the organizers who surround the camp. Security and support crews arrange for campsites, make dinner, shuttle passengers in and out, and bar the door to undesirables, which in this case means the press. Inside, the rain is a nearer enemy than the power plant--tents and tarps spring up, some Himalya-proof homes, other makeshift shelters, like the "Poncho Villa" erected by four Harvard students...