I wish I had more photos. I will keep looking. Man, what a daily buffet for the senses. The first photo is of Tim Robinson, a hero of our story. You know him best as that long-haired, good looking kid sitting next to Barry O on the steps of Pauahi Hall, part of the Punahou campus. That pic made it on the front pages of the NYT, Washington Post, and so forth.
http://www.darumanyc.com/newsletter/Daruma_2008_11p.html
Here’s a photo from our senior year. I was the editor (back row, left) of the Ka Wai Ola, the literary magazine. Tim Robinson and Tommy Krieger, good friends of Barry’s and shown sitting next to him, contributed many wonderful drawings. Barry happened to be walking by when our photo was being taken for the yearbook, and because we were a pathetically small group, we asked him to join us and paper the house. This is likely my one and only presidential photo op!
http://www.lulu.com/content/4216339
Our Friend Barry: Classmates’ Recollections of Barack Obama and Punahou School
Various Headines from 1977 – 1979
A Pakistani's Cry: 'Kill Us If You Will'
Washington Post, The (DC) - May 7, 1977
Length: 1050 words (Estimated printed pages: 4)
He came spilling through the peeling, white arabesque arch of the Nila Gumbad mosque with the rest of the men, a husky fellow with a full, black beard. Aftab Allam, he said his name was, and he owned two cloth shops there in the old quarter of Lahore. Like so many Punjabs who look older than they are, he appeared to be about 45, but he said he was 33. He had come to the mosque during a two-hour break in the curfew permitted for sabbath prayers. In the sermon, he said, the imam had told...
Violence Born of Fanaticism Tests Liberalism in Egypt
Washington Post, The (DC) - July 10, 1977
Length: 982 words (Estimated printed pages: 4)
The slaying of a former Egyptian Cabinet minister and the discovery that it was the work of Moslem fanatics apparently bent on a campaign of terror in the name of Islam have shocked Egypt and cast a spotlight on some of the country's political and religious divisions. Unlike the food price riots of January, this incident has not directly challenged the authority of President Anwar Sadat's government. The slaying itself, after the victim was kidnaped and held hostage,...
Moslems vs. Shah
Washington Post, The (DC) - May 26, 1978
Length: 1241 words (Estimated printed pages: 5)
The menacing battle tanks have left the square outside the mosque, whose gold-covered dome beckons travelers from across the Ochre Desert to this shrine of the Shia sect of Islam. But riot troops and secret police remain as tangible proof that Qom is the center of a battle between church and state, a conflict which since January has confronted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with his biggest challenge in 15 years, perhaps even a quarter of a century. Since the first trouble here in January,...
Shah Tells New Iranian Cabinet He Is Leaving
Washington Post, The (DC) - January 7, 1979
Length: 1560 words (Estimated printed pages: 6)
Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar presented a new civilian Cabinet made up of little-known technocrats today as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi indicated strongly that he would leave the country as soon as the new government is firmly installed. The shah's departure, ostensibly for a vacation, would be a last-ditch effort to save his throne. But it could mean an end to his reign because a revolutionary spirit is running through Iran that might prevent his return as monarch. The shah...
The Ayatollah's View Of Islamic Democracy
Washington Post, The (DC) - January 28, 1979
Length: 896 words (Estimated printed pages: 3)
AT THE CENTER of the swirl of upheaval in Iran is a man who hasn't even been in the country for more than a decade, a 78-year-old Moslem religious leader whose pronouncements can bring throngs into the streets of Iranian cities and cause lights to burn late in government offices around the world. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's unrelenting pressure for the establishment of an Islamic republic is the focus of the country's turmoil after the departure of the...
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Is Kidnaped, Slain in Shootout
Washington Post, The (DC) - February 15, 1979
Length: 1267 words (Estimated printed pages: 5)
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph (Spike) Dubs, was killed yesterday when Afghan police stormed the Kabul hotel room where he was being held by terrorist gunmen who had kidnaped him a few hours earlier. His death, the apparent result of the crossfire between police and the kidnapers, drew harsh criticism from the State Department, which said Afghan authorities had ignored official U.S. pleas for restraint in their efforts to free Dubs. The kidnapers were believed to be conservative.
American Hopes For Close Ties With Iran Dashed
Washington Post, The (DC) - November 8, 1979
Length: 870 words (Estimated printed pages: 4)
For the second time this year, mob action in Iran has shattered the Carter admistration's perceptions of its ability to deal with the Iranian revolution by staying close to the government in power. Only a month ago, middle-level State Department officials were encouraging U.S. businessmen to go back to Iran and work with the Islamic revolutionary regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in a bid to renew the American presence. Today, some of those same officials are working...
. . Khomeini Endorses Threat to Kill Hostages
Washington Post, The (DC) - November 23, 1979
Length: 1336 words (Estimated printed pages: 5)
Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said tonight that if the United States attacks Iran, the Islamic militants occupying the U.S. Embassy would kill the American hostages inside and blow up the building. Speaking on television, the 79-year-old Iranian leader for the first time personally endorsed the militants' death threats. "If the United States wants to attack us," Khomeini said, "we cannot restrain the...