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...really know what they're talking about," said White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Said former CIA Director Richard Helms, Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976: "If it's true, it's a shame they got caught." At the Brookings Institution, Middle East specialist Yahya Sadowski speculated that Rafsanjani might be using the cry of spies as a way to divert attention from his own political problems...
...Yahya Qureshi, President...
...P.L.O. fighters in Jordan are equally aware that they need a new strategy. General Abdul Razzak al Yahya, head of the P.L.O. in Jordan, told TIME last week that the P.L.O. would "make changes and reorganize itself internally in accordance with the lessons of Lebanon." Just what that meant remained to be seen, but Yahya was more explicit on one key point: he threatened that the P.L.O. would launch terrorist raids against the Israelis. "Jordan," said Yahya forcefully, "is the bridge for the West Bank." Yet if Jordan allows the P.L.O. to mount terrorist raids, the Israelis could be expected...
DIED. Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, 63, former Pakistani military strongman who presided over the 1971 breakup of Pakistan and the country's humiliating defeat in war by India; of an internal hemorrhage; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Yahya seized power in 1969, while commander in chief of the armed forces, promising a quick return to democratic rule. But when East Pakistan's Sheik Mujibur Rahman won the 1970 national election and demanded broad autonomy for the long neglected eastern wing of the country, Yahya refused to yield power; Sheik Mujibur was arrested and civil war broke out. Yahya...
...Yahya Qureshi...