prisonment
in his own country. Kiri Te Kanawa (1944- ) - Born in New Zealand of
Maori ancestry, and today one of the world's leading operatic
_divas_. Awarded the Order of Dame Commander of the British Empire
by H. M. Queen Elizabeth II, 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marques (1928- ) -
Colombian writer and novelist, winner of the Nobel prize for
literature in 1982, who was compelled to spend the 1960s and 1970s
in voluntary exile in Mexico and Spain to escape persecution in his
native land. Ravi Shankar (1920- ) - Indian composer and sitarist,
whose impressive talents and tours of Europe and North America
contributed to the awakening of interest in Indian music throughout
the West. Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov (1921-1989) - Russian nuclear
physicist, who abandoned scientific research to become the leading
spokesman for civil liberties in the Soviet Union, for which he was
awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, while suffering internal exile
in his own land. "Mother Teresa" (Agnes Gonxha Borjaxhiu, 1910-1997)
- Albanian born Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of
Charity, whose self-sacrificing work on behalf of the poor, the
homeless and the dying in Calcutta won her the Nobel Peace Prize in
1979. Zhang Yimou (1951- ) - A leading director among China's "Fifth
Generation" film makers and winner of many professional awards for
his sensitive and visually stunning work.

96 The three new National Spiritual Assemblies were Canada, which
established a National Assembly separate from that of the United
States in 1948, and the Regional Assemblies of Central America and
the Antilles (1951) and South America (1951).

97 Shoghi Effendi, _Messages to the Baha'i World, 1950-1957_ (Wilmette:
Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1995), p. 41.

_ 98 ibid._, pp. 38-39.

_ 99 Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha_, _op. cit._, p. 13.

100 Under the leadership of two of 'Abdu'l-Baha's half brothers,
Muhammad 'Ali and Badi'u'llah, together with a cousin, Majdi'd-Din,
the group of Covenant-breakers who had long occupied the Mansion at
Bahji after the death of Baha'u'llah carried on an unremitting
campaign of attacks and machinations against both the Master and the
Guardian. Under the British Mandate, they had been forced to
evacuate the Mansion because of t