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Thursday, September 3, 1998 / Shahrivar 12,
1377, No. 556
Khayyam
Fiction
My long tresses I shall cut
Young girls in a fictional Persian village
By Dorit Rabinyan
Flora was also made to sing the sad song that had been composed especially
for such troubles of the heart. The old women drew their cracked lips into
the dark caverns of their mouths and agreed with Sabiya Mansour that even
husbands who sailed beyond the Caspian Sea to the end of the world could
hear this song plainly, and the sadness of its bitter melody brought them
back to their wives. That was the song that Gulistan had sung to her lover,
Horshid, the women chorused squeakily, their eyes moist, their souls yearning,
and their flesh astir.
Gulistan was the beloved of Horshid, the royal sculptor. He had carved
her form in snowy, purple-veined marble like her skin, and set it in the
middle of a gushing fountain in the palace court. When Horshid heard that
Gulistan had been betrothed to the son of Reza Shah, he thrust the heavy
chisel into his forehead and died. The following day Gulistan found his
body floating in the palace fountain, the goldfish swimming in the caverns
of his ears. But when she sang him this song and told him that the story
of her betrothal was a lie spread by the prince to alienate her sculptor
lover, Horshid revived and the fractures in his skull healed immediately
with a fine purple scar. ... go to feature
Anyway
I was finally able to get The Iranian Times going again. It took a new
computer (Apple G3), returning it to repair a faulty CD-ROM drive, transferring
some of the old files, installing new software and... I'm just glad we're
back on track. Sorry for the wait. Enjoy. -jahanshah
History
Revolution: 1979-1999
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* Finally, Baskerville the film
Janet Afary writes: I am very happy to see that
someone finally is considering a film on Howard Baskerville ["Iran's American Martyr"]. I have
been pleading for years with filmmakers and have found no takers.
Your piece had one problem: the conspiracy theory.
Baskerville was an officer of a group of elite young men in Tabriz, while
Sattar Khan and Baqir Khan were commanders of the whole resistance army.
No one, to my knowledge (including M. A. Moore)
has ever suggested that Sattar Khan and his men deliberately shot Baskerville
to get Western attention. This is contrary to all he and others stood for
and it is a grave injustice to the memory of these men and women who steadfastly
protected the lives of the Westerners among them to the end... FULL
TEXT
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Its exotic locale, the romantic chemistry of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid
Bergman with a gripping equation of star-crossed romance and hard-boiled
valor made Casablanca an Oscar-winning surpise that erased Warner Brothers
studio executives' disappointment in George Raft for not signing on as
Rick, the suave, mysterious proprietor of the café that serves as
ground zero for this timeless 1942 classic. Max Steiner's urgent score,
and the equally contentious insertion of Dooley Wilson's now indelible
saloon reading of "As Time Goes By," has made the film's music
an integral piece of this pop cultural puzzle, finally enjoying a formal
soundtrack issue more than a half century after theatrical release. --
Sam Sutherland
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Taleban says Iran envoys
may be dead
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's
Taleban militia said on Thursday at least 10 missing Iranian diplomats may
be dead as tensions with Tehran escalated after 70,000 Iranian troops participated
in war games on their common border. Amnesty International reported on Thursday
that 10 Iranian diplomats and one journalist ``are said to have been killed
when the Taleban guards entered the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif.''
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DURBAN, South Africa, (HAMSHAHRI) - President Khatami
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of Experts in Tehran and some other major cities. Several names may not
make it through the vetting process... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Iran to sue German firms over chemical
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TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran on Thursday
named nine German companies it has said would face legal action for allegedly
supplying chemical weapons to Iraq during its 1980-88 war with Iran. State-run
Tehran radio quoted judiciary spokesman Fotovat Nassiri-Savadkuhi as saying
that a court in Tehran would hear charges filed by Iranian victims of chemical
attacks against the German firms ... FULL TEXT
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