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Richard Gorman of a coalition of priests and local residents battling an incursion of hot-bed motels in their Bronx neighborhood, "We have a very active clergy, but we're not a bunch of ayatollahs."
The 1960s American ban on Cuban cigars so devastated Fidel Castro that American policy-makers didn't hesitate, a decade later, to punish the flag-burning ayatollahs with a similar ban on Iranian caviar.
He criticized his father for understanding too late the Iranian people's yearning for democracy, saying that this was the cause of his overthrow 20 years ago and now of the student revolt against the ayatollahs.
The student riots in Tehran were taken most seriously by the Italian newspapers, some of which led their front pages with dramatic headlines--"A Day of Civil War" ( La Stampa of Turin), "The Fist of the Ayatollahs" ( La Repubblica of Rome)--and devoted several pages to their coverage of the unrest.
(These are the same people who held rallies to support Clinton during his impeachment and called the House managers "ayatollahs."