Word: aly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a flourish of dire warnings, stern homilies and inspired publicity, Dr. Ali Amini last week entered into his second precarious month as Premier of Iran...
...Premier Ali Amini, who came to power five weeks ago during a menacing and near-revolutionary period, had set out to do all that a man could to clear the air. He jailed scores of senior civil servants and other important profiteers, purged 33 generals and 270 colonels from the graft-riddled army. He freed the press from oppressive secret police surveillance, re-established freedom of assembly, and began sweeping corrupt and inefficient bureaucrats out of government ministries...
...Arabs rallied behind the Nationalist Party, nominally led by Ali Muhsin Barwani, 42, a quiet, devout dreamer. But its real leader is militant Abdulrahman Mohammed, nicknamed Babu, a highly intelligent Communist who makes flying trips to Prague and Moscow, has taken the party from a slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...
...rigged that he was forced to cancel them, he fired three key men of his immediate entourage. One of the first to go was Secret Police Chief General Teymour Bakhtiar, 48, who had built himself an ostentatious mansion near the Shah's own palace. Then there was General Ali Kia, 53, chief of army intelligence, who built a block of luxury apartments that Teheranis had taken to calling the Where-Did-You-Get-It-From Building. Purged also was Minister of the Interior General Alevi Moghadan, 57; last week eight Majlis Deputies broke all the windows of his home...
...Ali Amini, 53, a wealthy, French-educated (University of Grenoble) landowner with liberal political views who privately believes that Iran's 200,000-man army is too costly, its Development Plan too small, and the Shah too deeply involved in politics for his own good. After taking stock, Amini made a sobering report to the nation. "There is no life left in the economic and financial agencies of the government," he declared. To the striking teachers, he confessed: "The treasury is empty, and the nation faces a crisis-I dare not speak more openly lest I create a panic...