Word: five
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally this was not so. First established by Khomeini as a five-member body in November 1978, the Council was supposed to be a "revolutionary parliament" to prepare for an orderly transfer of power from the Shah's regime to a new revolutionary government...
...Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, 51, the "First Secretary" of the Council, is a tall mullah with a heavy beard, hawk nose and a magisterial manner when dealing with both colleagues and subordinates. Fluent in English and German (he served as a mullah to Iranian Muslims in Germany for five years during the 1960s), Beheshti is a skillful debater in public and a cunning manipulator behind the scenes...
Last week, on Thanksgiving Day, Haiti finally got its concert hall and music school. Diplomats and Haitian Cabinet members were present for the dedication of the building, which contains a 500-seat auditorium. Five members of the Boston Symphony were also there, and so, of course, was Sister Anne Marie...
...musical quiz turned out to be a snap for Mahosky, who, with the help of five academy friends, set out to rig the odds in his favor. They chipped in a total of $100, paid a printer to run off 75,000 copies of Mahosky's entry, and deposited them at WBKZ...
...promotional ads correctly boasted. The network managed to land Bob Dyk, a relatively unknown London-based radio reporter, in the capital as soon as the crisis broke. Fearing their employees would be in danger, CBS and NBC hesitated. They soon realized their mistake, but over the next few days five crews from CBS and three from NBC were turned away at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. A producer in Iran estimated that each futile entry attempt cost $16,000. ABC's Dyk was later given an on-the-spot promotion to the rank of network TV correspondent...