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Hopes for their release have been periodically raised, and then abruptly shattered. Once again last week there was a dizzying flurry of rumors that the prisoners of the Islamic militants might soon get their freedom-perhaps in a deal involving the shipment of U.S. military supplies to embattled Iran. And...
By the time the Covenant service took place on the Boston Common in November, the organization behind it had become primarily the business of Roman Catholics and the independent Black clergy, Rodman said. "The energy for it came from the Catholic Clergy in Charlestown. Decision making around the Covenant became...
The common denominator of all these unholy alliances is the old Arabic proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." The Saudi princes fear Khomeini's antimonarchist Islamic revolution, so they side with Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein wants to succeed the Shah as the principal power in the gulf...
Raja'i, 47, a former math teacher who became a leading member of the ruling clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party, was the first ranking Iranian leader to set foot in the U.S. since the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran last year. His diplomacy took a tantalizing turn...
Just 60 miles from Kabul, in fact, in the Ghorband Valley leading to the city of Bamiyan (pop. 47,000), seesaw battles between Soviet troops and bands of insurgents are said to have caused heavy casualties on both sides. In the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, the Soviets have apparently...