Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry and has now turned its efforts to the crusade against the nuclear arms race. Co-sponsors as diverse as the National Council of Churches, the Council on Economic Priorities, and Physicians for Social Responsibility helped attract large audiences for speakers such as former SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, former Tehran Hostage Moorhead Kennedy, and Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado...
...cold, starlit night last month a group of 36 strangers was ushered into the Tehran Hilton with all the security precautions that once attended the transfer of the Iranian crown jewels. While plainclothesmen and a detachment of Islamic Guards armed with machine guns hustled the group through the lobby, hotel staffers were amazed to hear the foreigners address one another, and their Iranian hosts, as baradar (brother), in the best tradition of Islamic revolutionaries, while they chatted in flawless, idiomatic Farsi...
...Iranian. Although they have been meeting periodically since last July, the tribunal's members have still not agreed on basic operating rules or even whether the cases need to be decided by unanimous vote or simple majority rule. Another key detail over which both Washington and Tehran continue to squabble concerns whether Iran or the fund should receive the interest on the $1 billion settlement account. With Iran in continuing turmoil, no one knows if the Tehran government will continue to support the arbitration process...
Across the Islamic world, from Tripoli to Tehran, the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was celebrated by bursts of bullets from every revolutionary's favorite automatic weapon. More than 10 million AK-47s, designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, are now in circulation throughout the world...
...role the U.S. networks welcomed. Hard lessons were learned this year about the nerve-wracking process of live coverage, first in Tehran as the hostages were released on Inauguration Day, then at a hotel in Washington, D.C., last March, then in St. Peter's Square only six weeks later. Says CBS News President Bill Leonard: "Four times this year the limits of our capabilities have been strained, where we've been operating very rapidly, sometimes in the dark." At such times, the possibility for error is great. The events unfolding last week were of such magnitude, particularly...