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From the archives: Ayatollah Khomeini Dies at 86
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the political priest who overthrew the world's most powerful reigning monarch but never achieved his dream of either national unity or a worldwide Islamic revival, has died at the age of 86, Tehran Radio announced today....Tags: National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, Republican Party, Pakistan
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From the archives: Khomeini Says Author of 'Satanic Verses' Should Be Killed
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersNICOSIA, Cyprus -- As anger over an allegedly blasphemous novel continued to gather force in the Islamic world, Iran's spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said Tuesday that the author and publishers of the book should be killed. Tehran...Tags: Poetry, National Government, Qur'an, Tehran (Iran), Mumbai (India)
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From the archives: Bush Can No Longer Avoid Terrorism Issue
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- For six months since taking the oath of office, George Bush had carefully maneuvered to distance himself from the issue of terrorism, but on Monday he was plunged into the worst foreign policy crisis of his presidency by the same...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kidnapping, Christopher Dodd, Diplomacy, Terrorism
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From the archives: Moves to Bar Rushdie Novel Spread Rapidly
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersNEW YORK -- The unprecedented international furor over Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, "The Satanic Verses," continued unabated, forcing the author's Manhattan publisher to close because of bomb threats Friday, while the two biggest U.S. bookstore...Tags: Ali Khamenei, Health and Safety at School, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan
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From the archives: Uncertain Political, Fiscal Outlook
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNICOSIA, Cyprus -- Ten years after the revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran and replaced him with a government led by Islamic clerics, the Iranian people face the political and economic future with great uncertainty. Starting today, Iran is...Tags: Reconstruction, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice System, Judges
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From the archives: Hostage Spared; Role of Iran Seen as Pivotal
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- The Bush Administration on Thursday began to seek ways to expand Iran's apparently pivotal role in sparing the life of hostage Joseph J. Cicippio into a resolution of the five-year-old hostage crisis. Although relieved U.S. officials...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jordan, U.S. Department of Defense, Terrorism, U.S. Department of State
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From the archives: Khomeini's Heir Apparent Quits in Blow to Moderates
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- Iran's Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri resigned Tuesday as heir apparent to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in what is widely seen as a swing in the political pendulum back to the even more fanatical tone of the revolution's early days....Tags: Health and Safety at School, Princeton University, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), George Mason
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From the archives: Swayed by Revolutionary Islam
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- There are usually no more than a handful--ragtag bands of former shoe clerks or bakery workers, anonymous students or manual laborers in Lebanon's orange groves. Often, they seem to have barely enough money to feed themselves and their...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kidnapping, Aircraft Hijacking, Islam, Guerrilla Activity
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From the archives: Death of The Ayatollah
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCAIRO -- As millions of Iranians spilled into the streets of Tehran to mourn the death of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's religious hierarchy moved swiftly Sunday to avert what is still expected to be a bitter power struggle by naming President...Tags: Ali Khamenei, Politics, Tehran (Iran), Health, Entertainment
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Conflict Escalates on Streets of Iran
TEHRAN, Iran -- Witnesses said police fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands of protesters who rallied in Tehran Saturday in open defiance of Iran's clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic...Tags: Crimes, Tehran (Iran), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Entertainment
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