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...Khan Professor of Iranian History, Richard N. Frye has studied and taught courses on subjects from Zoroasterianism to the study of languages like Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, Kurdish and Pashto. A member of the Near Eastern Studies Center, the Linguistics Department and the History Department, not to mention the chairman of the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Affairs and a former editor of an archeological journal, Frye is involved in as many academic concerns as the numbers of languages he speaks...
...Over the years I've taught Hebrew, Arabic, early, middle and late Persian, Turkish and Pashto," Frye says. "And that's actually pretty difficult. One of the things people don't realize is that all those languages are very different. It would be like having one professor of romance languages...
Frye says that he has also been involved with teaching Near Eastern religions like Manichaeanism and Zoroasterianism. Currently he teaches a course in Sogdian language, the language of people residing near the Soviet-Chinese border, the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, and middle Persian (300 to 700 A.D.) language...
...Tuesday to throw out a suit brought by Democratic congressmen that charged President Reagan with violating the resolution. The court claimed that the ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War had rendered moot the legislators' case that Reagan had acted illegally by introducing troops into a hostile setting in the Persian Gulf without notifying Congress...
...White House insisted it was a "change in procedure," not in policy. But last week's decision to wind down U.S. Navy escorts of oil tankers in the Persian Gulf was greeted with relief at the Pentagon. The Aug. 20 cease-fire between Iran and Iraq put an end to attacks on gulf shipping, and the Reagan Administration wasted no time in moving to relieve the Navy of a difficult task that since July 1987 has caused serious damage to two U.S. warships, led to the accidental downing of an Iranian jetliner and cost an estimated $20 million a month...