21.   The director of the school, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, played a powerful role in the first years of Islamic rule in Iran.

22.   The festivities ignored centuries of Islamic rule in Iran, provoking scorn from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the patriarch of the revolution that toppled the shah.

23.   The Europeans also fear the possibility of an influx of frightened middle-class North African migrants averse to the idea of living under Islamic fundamentalist rule.

24.   The hardliners insist on strict enforcement of Islamic rules which ban everything from drinking and dating to satellite television dishes.

25.   The goal of the fundamentalists is to oust the secular government and establish strict Islamic rule.

26.   The growing alienation of tens of millions of young Iranians is probably the greatest threat to the future of Islamic rule.

27.   The rally followed a weeklong wave of protests against Islamic rule in Iran, where scores of students were arrested in a bloody clash with government police.

28.   The school district banned pork from its lunches eight years ago, and this fall began a program serving halal meat, permitted under Islamic rules.

29.   Their goal is to liberalize Islamic rule, not overturn it.

30.   They have been aided by the dismal failure of Iran, which has become a living, breathing advertisement against Islamic rule.