Word: alam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powerful Friend. Amini's replacement is the Shah's boyhood buddy, Assadollah Alam, 43, a frequent fixture of Teheran governments, and known for his willingness to carry out the monarch's orders. Educated at a British school in Iran, Alam was Minister of the Interior at 29, early displayed what an American acquaintance describes as a combination of native toughness and Y.M.C.A. dedication...
Died. Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, 62, Paramount Ruler of Malaya since his election to a five-year term last April under the Federation's unusual rotating kingship system, a onetime farmer, who became Sultan of the state of Selangor in 1938; following hospitalization for a viral infection; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...
Concerned by widespread corruption in the government bureaucracy, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had wanted a free, two-party vote. With the Shah's encouragement, his close boyhood friend, Asa-dollah Alam, had taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls...
...your criticism and your complaints. You may say whatever you like. I don't depend on your votes. The Shah has ordered me to serve, and I am his servant." The opposition Mardom party was set up on the Shah's orders by his oldest friend, Asadollah Alam. One of the opposition charges is that the government party does not adequately explain to the people how much the Shah has done for them. Grumbled a prominent Iranian in private: "You would think they are both trying to get the Shah elected Prime Minister...
...city's 5,000 bordellos were ordered not to call to passing delegates. Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep from delegates the nasty story of the massacre at the town of Yirga-Alam last March, when his police shot down hundreds of peasants who revolted against their feudal landlords...