Word: amir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gala day in Bangkok. Prince Vajiralongkorn was being invested at Parliament House as heir to the throne of Thailand, and most foreign diplomats, including Israeli Ambassador Rehavam Amir, were among those attending the ceremony. In short, the city's embassies were quiet and relaxed. All, that is, except the Israeli Embassy on Soi Lang Suan ("The Lane Behind the Orchard"). In the hot tropical sun of high noon, two men in leather jackets climbed over the wall enclosing the compound, while two others, well-dressed in dark suits, strolled in through the front gate. Before the guard could raise...
...immortalize his friend in a biography. His next thought is that it is damned inconvenient for a biographer to have a living subject messing things up. To reveal more would be unfair. Significantly, both little boys love to hear Edwin's father recite Abdul, the Bulbul Amir, but Father can never remember how the poem ends...
Belly Dancer Nadia Parsa was doing her peristaltic stuff at a press party in Teheran when in walked Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger with Iranian Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Siseo. Her kohl-rimmed eyes gleaming, Nadia undulated over to the tables where the VIPS were sitting. Then, while Iranian plainclothesmen efficiently stymied the photographers, she nestled herself on Kissinger's lap for three minutes or so. "A delightful girl," said Henry the K later, "very interested in foreign policy." What had they talked about? Answered Kissinger, with a straight face...
...Shah of Iran dispatched his brother, Prince Mahmoud, and Prime Minister Amir Abass Hoveida to supervise rescue operations. Within four hours of the disaster, Iran's Red Cross, the Red Lion and Sun, was administering to the injured...
Divorced. Amir Abass Hoveida, 52, Premier of Iran since the 1965 assassination of his predecessor Hassan AH Mansur; and Leyla Emami Hoveida, 38, Mansur's sister-in-law; after five years of marriage, no children; in Teheran...