Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million acres of land has been distributed to landless peasants, and farm credits are being increased. The southern cotton belt is now mechanized. An EGA agricultural mission has introduced better seed grains, better breeding stock, better farming methods. Turkish farmers eagerly accept the new techniques. Last week Ali Kumyol, 42, a heavy-set farmer from Çorlu in Thrace, proudly displayed his John Deere tractor, said it enabled him to double his wheat and barley production. "For the first time since my marriage, I can afford to keep my wife out of the fields," he said. "I never knew...
...Bang-Up Job. Some of these efforts have good results. Last year the Shah picked as Premier his close friend, Ali Razmara, who had done a bang-up job as army chief of staff. The Majlis resents Razmara, as it resents any kind of effective government. "I have to spend 75% of my time fighting off intrigues," the new Premier said. In spite of the Majlis and the Princess Ashraf, Premier Razmara began getting things done...
...Imperial Guard, and many of Razmara's army friends were shifted out of key posts. Caught between the resentful Majlis and the suspicious Shah, Razmara is still hanging on, still serving his country well. (Princess Ashraf wants his job to go to an old friend of hers, Ali Soheily, now Iranian minister to London...
...brother, however, was missing -Pakistan's burly Liaquat Ali Khan. Liaquat had refused to come to London unless he got a promise that the conference would formally consider the long-smoldering dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, where, after two years of futile attempts at negotiation, Indian and Pakistani troops still face each other belligerently across an uneasy U.N. cease-fire line. By tradition, Commonwealth conferences do not concern themselves with disputes among members, but all the ministers were eager to bring the ninth brother into the fold. Attlee fired off messages to Liaquat offering informal discussion...
...break for Iran. It was also an admission that Anglo-Iranian's old rate had been too low. Majlis (Parliament) members, who had always claimed the foreign company was cheating Iran, reacted violently. The fury of the Majlis' opposition brought forth the new reform government of Premier Ali Razmara, Iran's hardest-working, most honest regime in years. Last week, with defeat inevitable, the Razmara government prudently withdrew the Anglo-Iranian Oil proposal without waiting for a vote...