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...house by three unknown assailants. The first chief of staff of the army after the revolution, Gharani had been fired from his post in March after his harsh campaign against Kurdish rebels in Sanandaj; nonetheless, he was given full military honors. During the funeral procession, which drew a throng of 50,000 mourners, security guards seized a young man in an air force uniform who was running toward Bazargan with a hand grenade and an Uzi automatic. The government denied that there had been an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister. Eyewitnesses thought otherwise...
...committee settled on the compromise of non-voting student advisers, and in its report effusively acknowledged their effectiveness. Thomson credits the presence of the students for what he calls the "radicalization" of the committee. "I began to watch professors who had only known students as barbarians in that throng below the podium, hearing words of wisdom out of the young, and they began to respect them," he recalls...
During the hajj, pilgrims throng Mecca, the men clad in two seamless white garments and sandals, the women in white head-to-toe covering. The pilgrims walk seven times around the Ka'ba, a cubical stone building covered by a gold-embroidered black canopy, in the exterior wall of which is set the Black Stone. The interior, now empty, once housed pagan idols, which Muhammad destroyed. The pilgrims also visit other holy sites, act out the search for water by Hagar, the mother of the Arab nation, perform a vigil on Mount 'Arafat (site of the Prophet...
...been so feverishly demanded," wrote a local columnist. Four years earlier, the Glee Club had entertained Mayslack and his customers with Renaissance lamentations, and they were back for a return bout. Conductor F. John Adams '66, beer in hand, led the group in Harvard fight songs, and the noontime throng loved...
...Ayatullah's return. Now, hundreds of thousands of people, chanting "God is great," lined the narrow highway from Tehran to catch a glimpse of him as his motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly an hour for the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to complete the last mile and a half of his journey. Finally, he mounted the steps of a golden...