Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stay up until 3 a.m. on a Thursday morning to watch Washington State Tech take on Iowa Southern State Community College in the first round of the Western Regionals. Live, right here...
...first days after the Ayatullah's shocking death threat, governments and the general public alike in the U.S. and Western Europe were slow to react. Who could believe that a book that practically nobody had read -- and an often obscure if sometimes brilliant one, at that -- was the catalyst precipitating a bizarre international crisis...
...Khomeini repeated his threat again and again, Western governments at last began to take action. Led by Britain and strongly supported by West Germany, the twelve members of the European Community voted to withdraw their top-ranking diplomats from Tehran in protest. So did Canada, Sweden and Norway. Iran swiftly retaliated by pulling most of its own ambassadors out of Western Europe...
...days earlier when he spoke of Rushdie's possible repentance. But Khamenei sounded almost as fierce as the Ayatullah last week, saying of the death edict, "The long black arrow has been slung and is now traveling toward its target. There is nothing more that can be done." Western governments, he added, had made the mistake of confusing "freedom of expression with the freedom to insult 1 billion Muslims...
Muslim anger surfaced elsewhere, fueling American and British fears for the safety of their hostages. In Lebanon, two related pro-Iranian Shi'ite organizations, Hizballah and Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, both believed to be holding Western hostages, endorsed Khomeini's threat. Islamic Jihad issued a vow to seek revenge against "all those who take part in strong and ferocious campaigns against Islam." The statement was accompanied by a Polaroid photograph of the three American hostages, Alann Steen, Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner, who were kidnaped from the campus of Beirut University College more than two years...