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While the American dead were being honored in Florida, more than 7,000 miles away in Tehran something most indecent was happening to their corpses, Iranian authorities tore open the plastic bags that contained the charred remains, poked at them with knives and held up pieces for government television crews...
The conflict between militant Islam and the Communist left has also created troubles elsewhere. Last week's May Day demonstrations were marred by violence throughout Iran. In Tehran, Muslim zealots known as Hezbollahis (members of God's party) attacked the rallies of two leftist groups, the Marxist Fedayan...
A few hours later, in a display of whipped-up outrage, the Iranian air force dispatched American-made F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to blast the ruins of the charred aircraft and to disable four other undamaged Sea Stallions abandoned by the U.S. Ironically, as the rubble bounced, one Islamic...
Of particular concern to Washington was how Moscow would react. The Kremlin's answer came swiftly, and reflected the deterioration of U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The attempted rescue, said the official Soviet news agency, TASS, was an "armed provocation against the...
A graduate of the class of '50, the second of three generations of Harvard Fine Arts concentrators, Welch took a liking to American Indian painting. As a graduate student, he studied classical art. Over the years, he developed a taste for exoticae. Today, about thirty years later, the University officially...