THE IRANIAN
TIMES
Tuesday, March 31, 1998
Farvardin 11, 1377
No. 446
Abu Saeed
Headlines
* Editorial: An Intricate Dance With Iran
* Majid Rahnema: Candle in the dark
* Fereydoun Moshiri: Hear him read "Kucheh"
* Nostalgia: Mohandess Billy
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The Web: Ministries
* Help: Translating Iran experiences
Index
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IRAN-U.S.
* Editorial: An Intricate Dance With Iran, (The New York Times) - The United States and Iran are engaged in the delicate business of trying to repair a broken relationship. Reconciliation will not be easy, and may prove impossible if Iran does not end its support of terrorism and its effort to develop nuclear weapons. But the initial signs are promising and should be pursued... full text
* Editorial: Teamwork with Tehran , (Boston Globe) - There ought to be bipartisan support for each step in the dance of US-Iranian rapprochement. The immediate aim is to help Khatami politically so the two sides can develop realistic relations based on congruent interests. The stakes of such cooperation may include a Mideast peace settlement, stable and efficient pipelines for oil and gas from the Caspian basin, an anti-Saddam balance of power in the Persian Gulf, and an end to the threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction from Tehran ... full text
* U.S. House OKs $147M for missile defense against Iran, (AP) - Warned that Iran and North Korea are developing medium-range ballistic missiles, Congress is moving to strengthen the nation's still-modest defense against such systems. The House voted Monday night to authorize a $147 million program for the current fiscal year to beef up radar systems and to speed development of the latest generation of Patriot missiles, the PAC-3 missile ... full text
* Conoco CEO: Engagement More Effective Than Sanctions, (PRNewswire) - The United States loses its ability to influence other nations whenever it imposes unilateral economic sanctions that fail to achieve their goals, Conoco President and CEO Archie W. Dunham said. A frequent and vocal critic of unilateral sanctions, Dunham told a Houston meeting of the National Foreign Trade Council that engagement is a much more effective foreign policy tool.On the subject of Iran, he noted that National Security Advisor Sandy Berger recently said President Clinton is being advised to "dance, but dance slowly."... full text
* Iran-symposium in Los Angeles: "Totally neutral," (Los Angeles Times, March 28) - The World Affairs Council of Orange County will host a symposium April 2 addressing the two-decade standstill on diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran. Panel members will discuss whether U.S. and Iranian officials should resume a dialogue that ended in 1979 with the hostage crisis. Both sides of the debate will be addressed equally, and the World Affairs Council will not take sides. "The council is not advocating anything. It is totally neutral," said Sir Eldon Griffiths, president. Featured guests will include Hadi Nejad Hosseinian, Iran's United Nations representative. University instructors, a former U.S. hostage, past ambassadors and corporate leaders are among the other panelists... click for details
FEATURES
* Saudis end investigation of terrorist bombing, but do not release results, (The New York Times) - The Saudi Arabian government said on Monday that it had completed its investigation into the June 1996 terrorist bombing there that left 19 American airmen dead but would not immediately release the results of the inquiry.The announcement caught the Clinton administration by surprise and led to new fears that the culprits might never be brought to justice... full text
NEWS
* Israel says Iran remark on Lebanon interesting, (Reuters) - Israel received with great interest remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on the implications of an Israeli troop withdrawal from south Lebanon, a government official said on Tuesday. Kharrazi said on Monday Iranian-backed Hizbollah guerrillas would have achieved their goals if Israel withdrew its occupation troops from Lebanon... full text
ECONOMY
* Iran to build 77,000 apartments to ease shortage, (Reuters) - Iran launched a state-sponsored plan on Tuesday to build 77,000 apartments to deal with an acute housing shortage, Tehran radio said. It said the rental units, being built particularly to provide housing for youth, would be half financed through state subsidies with the other half coming from loans from prospective tenants... full text
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ARTS
* On display at the Freer Gallery, Washington, DC: "The Seven Thrones: A Princely Manuscript From Iran," through March 29; Open daily 10 to 5:30. Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. 202/357-2700 (TDD: 202/357-1729).
* Iranian films in Washington DC: A festival of some recent Iranian films is planned in Washington, DC, during March/April 1998. The films are shown at the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium of the Freer Gallery. Tickets are free and can be obtained (up to two per person) on a first-come-first-served basis one hour prior to the program. Films being shown: March 8/13: Leila (Dariush Mehrjui), March 20/22: Det Means Girl (Abolfazl Jalili), March 27/29: Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), April 3: Beyond Fire (Kianoush Ayyari), April 5: A True Story (Jalili), April 17: The Abadanis (Kiarostami), April 26: Taste of Cherries (Kiarostami).
* "Taste of Cherry" U.S. screen schedules from the official Zeitgeist Film site... click here...Thanks to Payman Arabshahi <payman@fermi.jpl.nasa.gov>
THE IRANIAN
Majid Rahnema
Candle in the dark
From "Twenty-Six Years Later; Ivan Illich in conversation with Majid Rahnema" published in "The Post-development Reader" compiled and introduced by Majid Rahnema with Victoria Bawtree (Zed Books, Fernwood Publishing, 1997). "The Post-development Reader" is one of the best-selling academic books in the United Kingdom.
Illich: Tell your friend the story of Saadi's Golestan, the story you related at the celebration last night: "In the annals of Ardashir Babakan, it is told that he asked an Arabian physician how much food one should eat daily. He replied, "A hundred dirham's weight would suffice." The king pressed him further, "What strength will this quantity give?" The physician answered, "This quantity will carry you; and that which is in excess of it, you must carry." "Enough" is like a magic carpet; I experience "more" as a burden, a burden that during the 20th century has become so heavy that we cannot pack it on our shoulders. We must load it into lorries that we have to buy and maintain... go to feature
NOSTALGIA
SPORTS
* Wrestling team heads to U.S. competition, (AP) - Iran's wrestling team left Tuesday for an international competition in the United States, furthering a sports detente begun with last month's visit by American wrestlers.The 18-member delegation, including 12 wrestlers, will stop in Frankfurt, Germany, for a day to get their U.S. visas, said Aref Rabti, an official of the Iranian Wrestling Federation... full text
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POETRY
* Fereydoun Moshiri on CD
Fereydoun Moshiri's poetry reading last October in Berkeley, California, is now available on CD. For more information and orders, contact Radio Havaye Tazeh at: 415-673-4726.
Listen to Moshiri's reading of "Kucheh"... here's the poem's text
* Contest
Omar Khayyam Poetry Society invites you to enter our poetry contest. Prizes: First place $100, Second $75, Third $50. Winners will be announced and printed in THE IRANIAN in June 1998.
Subject: Longing places, memories, love
Format: Poems must be in English and emailed to <matteof@msn.com>. Include your name, address and phone number.
Deadline: May 10, 1998
Entry fee: $5 for up to three poems. You may send cash or check payable to R. Macroberts. Send to 1045 Walnut Grove, Rochester Hills, MI 48306, USA.
QUESTION
Translating Iran experiences
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LETTERS
* Poetry problem
To put a "rubai" or "do beyti" from famous Iranian poets in The Iranian Times is a wonderful idea. But, some of them have rhyming "vazn" and wording problems. In the recent weekly edition (55-B) issue, the poem from "Abu Saeed" has two problems. First mesra' should be either "aaludey-e donyaa" without "be" in between or, "aalude be donyaa" without "ye". Second mesra' should read "aasude tar ast har aanke darvishtar ast". This is the second time that I found problem with the poems. Persian literature is my major. You see why I am so sensitive about it :-) Mahvash Shahegh <mshahegh@skipjack.soc.lib.md.us>
JJ: The first mesra' has been corrected. The second one I checked again; it's the same as it appears in the book. If you are certain that it's wrong, please let me know.
BOOKSTORE
Book of the week
Barnameh-ye enerji-ye atomi-ye iran, talash-ha va tanesh-haa
Foundation for Iranian Studies, 1997. Available from Iranbooks.
A history of Iran's Atomic Energy Program as told by Akbar Etemad, the
first head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, edited by Gholam Reza
Afkhami.
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ACADEMIC
* Working in-and with -Iran The State of the Art, Presented by the Gulf/2000 Project and the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University. Wednesday, April 1, 1998 SIPA Building, 15th Floor 118th and Amsterdam Ave., New York City.
* Davis on Sufism and Sufi poetry: The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University Presents: Lecture by Professor Dick Davis, professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University, titled "SUFISM AND SUFI POETRY". Date/time: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 8:00 pm. Address: The Woodrow WIlson School, Bowl 5.
* Symposium on Iran, in Houston: The James III Baker Institute of Rice University, Houston, Texas, is organizing a symposium on Iran, April 2, 1998. The speakers include Congressman Lee Hamilton, Hooshang Amirahmadi of Rutgers University, and Bruce Ridel, Special Advisor to President Clinton.
ENTERTAINMENT
Poetry & Music, San Francisco
April 4, 1998 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco -- XDOT 25 Productions Concert Series:
* Hafez Modirzadeh on soprano, alto sax, ney, karna * Habib Khan on sitar * Yussi on accoustic guitar * Alan Koushan on santour * Tim Witter on tabla & Percussion * Michael Lewis on tabla * Koorosh Angali on keyboard, poetry reciting * Indian classical vocalist Shafqat Ali Khan * And dance performance by Shahrzad * Tickets $15 & $20 * Get your tickets by telephone. Call 800-710-8600
PHOTO OF THE DAY
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MUSIC
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
Al's happy, we're happy
The United States has suddenly become generous about issuing visas to Iranian journalists, academics, writers, and artists who wish to attend cultural events in this country. Iranian diplomats are allowed to travel as far from the UN as the Fletcher School at Tufts, and even Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York says he is so happy about the incipient dialogue between Iran and the United States that he does not mind that the sanctions prescribed in his Iran-Libya Sanctions Act are not being applied by President Clinton.
Editorial
"Teamwork with Tehran"
The Boston Globe
March 31, 1998
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