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...courts punished rapists, thieves and adulterers, as well as more of the SAVAK agents, police and army officers who have been their chief targets. In Tehran, four men convicted of raping an 18-year-old male university student were executed; unaccountably, the victim was given 13 lashes. In Jamshid Abad, near the Caspian coast, a married woman and her lover were whipped in the square for adultery (he got 80 lashes...
Mashhadi Mohammed Nik-Dehghan, 39, lives in Lashkar-Abad, a farming village (150 families, most of them related) 75 miles from Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's family was struggling until the Shah launched his land reform in 1963. The family received 125 acres under a complicated system that bars it from subdividing the land into small, uneconomic plots but provides a good income. Mashhadi Nik-Dehghan's crop of grapes and apples last year earned him $9,000, four times Iran's per capita income. Other programs have provided his town with a paved road, a clinic, a school and self...
...Continental). Once upon a time in Brooklyn there was a mean old slumlord (Peter Ustinov). Golly, was he mean. He raised the rent on any pretext, lowered the boom at the first late payment, embezzled the savings of his ignorant tenants, and screamed at them just to stay in abad humor. When beggars knocked at his door, he screwed up his face till he looked like a huge, ferocious dog, and snarled and barked to frighten them away...
...sickly, intense peasant's son who moved from the feet of Philippine Socialist Pedro Abad Santos into the more militant ways of the Communists, Luis Taruc had received none of the marrow-deep Marxist schooling characteristic of the usual Red guerrilla leader. But he had proclaimed loud & often his devotion to Soviet Russia and the Communist ideology...