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Oleg Grabar, professor of Fine Arts and chairman of the Department, attended a conference in Cairo on the preservation and restoration of Islamic monuments of the old city of Cairo.
Grabar said last month he attended the conference partly because he is an authority on Islamic architecture, and partly to discuss a proposal by the Aga Khan to restore some Egyptian monuments. During the conference, he met with worldwide authorities and with Gehan el-Sadat, Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat...
To compete with him, the conservative mullahs and their Islamic Republic Party feel that they must demonstrate an ability to improve relations with foreign governments, an obviously difficult task so long as the hostages remain in Iran. Ironically, no one sounded more eager to send the Americans home last week...
The military takeover has been pervasive in the political realm. With party activity banned, all parliamentary processes remain suspended. Both deposed Prime Minister Demirel and the former opposition leader, Bulent Ecevit, have been released after about a month in detention. The leaders of two militant parties, however-Alparslan Turkey, of...
The initial reaction of key Iranian officials was not encouraging. Ali Reza Nobari, the American-educated governor of Iran's central bank, described the American reply as "cool to us" and doubted that U.S. law was a real obstacle to satisfying all the demands. Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, leader...