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Banisadr's crashing fall from power was a classic example of a revolution's destroying its young. He had been Khomeini's protégé, the man who had offered the Ayatullah hospitality when he sought refuge in Paris in 1978. Khomeini, who called Banisadr "my son," thought that the owl-eyed intellectual could provide a scientific rationale for the Islamic reforms he proposed to put into effect, thus marrying the 20th and 7th centuries. Following Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran in 1979, Banisadr seemed to have the Ayatullah's full confidence. Though...
...State Cyrus Vance, 64. But when the vote was announced last week-gasp -Kissinger was dead last. Said one council member: "It just stood out on the ballot-a chance to vote against Kissinger. It was too good to pass up." Council President Winston Lord, 43, a former Kissinger protégé, had a different view. Said he: "It's really a fluke...
...Edith's protégé-like the young Dylan Thomas or the expatriate Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, whom she loved for 30 years with all her virgin heart -was to become the object of an awesome and sometimes smothering loyalty, feudal in its fierceness...
That was Campo's big break. He started as a groom, and after four years Neloy promoted him to assistant trainer -and full-time protégé. In hopes of smoothing some of Campo's rough edges, Neloy went so far as to enroll him in a Dale Carnegie course. That effort failed. Though Campo could never acquire the social skills of the racing swells, he learned well the lessons of the barn and backstretch. Says Trainer Woody Stephens: "Johnny was a very hardworking guy. Eddie gave him his first push when he sent...
This week the Teamsters' 21-member executive board meets in Las Vegas to pick a replacement. The leading candidate is Roy L. Williams, 66, a protégé of Fitzsimmons'. The president of union Local 41 in Kansas City, Mo., Williams began driving a truck in 1935 and joined the Teamsters three years later. As a trustee of the Teamsters' $2.8 billion Central States pension fund, Williams has been probed by federal officials for mismanagement and ties to organized crime. He has been indicted three times on federal embezzlement and records falsification charges, but never convicted...