Both of the abducted clergymen survived five months of imprisonment.
Kidnappings for ransom are rife: celebrities and clergymen are plucked off the street in daylight.
In 1906 the chimp cage at the New York Zoological Society included a pygmy man, until objections from black clergymen led to his withdrawal.Thankfully there were pioneers to move zoos out of their dark age.
Taking advantage of the post-Christmas torpor, the second and fourth most senior clergymen in the Church went on the attack.
Special courts, set up after the revolution, continue to try clergymen in secret for fear that news of their misdeeds would reflect badly on the regime.Even so, lonely voices are emerging to say the unsayable.
The party's assumption is that pastoral clergymen would be more lenient and accommodating than the stern and remote rabbinical judges.
The Brotherhood's members are largely lay professionals, not clergymen, and instinctively shrink from handing clerics too much power.
The number of professionals available is reduced, from the start, by a long list of automatic exemptions, which includes members of parliament, peers, nurses, soldiers, sailors, chemists, vets, doctors and clergymen.
"How can anyone judge who has never seen his buddies mangled or been shot at himself?" asked an Australian military trainer in 1946.Most of the book is about combat at close quarters—how men were trained to kill, why they fought (for comrades and the respect of comrades, mostly) and what role doctors and clergymen played in combat.
On a homelier note, a priest reports that two protesters have started attending cathedral services.It is possible to see why some Anglican clergymen are bullish about their church's relevance in austerity Britain, despite decades of falling attendance and gibes about woolly, waffly priests wringing their hands at how complicated life is.
But under the constitution bequeathed by Khomeini, the decisions of a mere parliament can be struck down by the "just and pious" clergymen of the Council of Guardians, which is in turn subordinate to the faqih, the top cleric and "supreme leader".
