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That did it. Nationalists poured into the streets of Teheran and Abadan yelling: "Death to Qavam the traitor." They postured before the soldiers screaming: "Pierce our breasts with your bayonets." Mullah Kashani, whose spiritual followers murdered moderate Premier Ali Razmara in 1951, told newsmen that Qavam would also be "eliminated...
...fortnight ago, Mohammed Mossadegh, the Lion of Abadan, decided to survey his political fences after 14 months as Premier. He called a few Majlis leaders to his big beige brick house and asked: "Well, what do you think of my policies, generally?" Said a deputy, after a long pause: "We've always been in favor of everything you've done, Your Excellency, but . . ." Mossadegh cut in impatiently: "That's it! That 'but'! You approve of everything I do, but you always nullify it with...
...dawn last week, an American pilot flew eastward from the dead refinery town of Abadan along the shore of the Persian Gulf. As he skimmed five feet above fields crawling with dark brown insects, the 24 nozzles attached to the tanks slung under the plane's wings sprayed down death. The tanks were filled with Aldrin, a powerful new U.S. insecticide that kills locusts but is harmless to crops and cattle. Other Americans flew on similar missions in Jordan, Iraq and Pakistan, in a Point Four campaign that is costing the U..S. half a million dollars...
This week, as Now Rouz rolled around again, Iranians were in full control and possession of their oil but did not know how to refine it, and no tankers called at Abadan. A commission of experts from the World Bank, disheartened by Mossadegh's fanatic unreasonableness, prepared to leave Teheran, taking with it any hope of an immediate solution of bankrupt Iran's oil problem. With no money to spend, shoppers gazed longingly into the windows of Teheran's shops and glumly wished one another a happy Now Rouz...
...Persian Gulf's capacity to pump up oil strains belief. Within less than a year after Mossadegh's fanatics shut down the world's largest refinery at Abadan, other Middle East fields have not only made up the deficit but increased the total by more than 100,000 barrels...