Word: armenian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROOSEVELT obtained the Imperial Decree and using the skills of an innocent Armenian photographer unable to read Persian he made 300 copies and rushed them to foreign embassies and public places. Then he hired the mobs of a former champion athlete, Sha'abar Bi Mokh, who ran a gymnasium in Tehran. Bi Mokh's name means "Brainless" but his lucrative employment with the CIA shows he was inappropriately christened. Roosevelt's other macabre preparations for the coup included the assasination of some of Mossadeq's supporters. Their bodies, throats slit, were buried in the Elburz mountains...
...highest official in the land could make his case and win." Khomeini predicted that in the new Iran "even the minorities will be protected and will have the power to bring the most powerful person in the country to justice." During the Christian holidays he received Jewish and Armenian delegations from Iran and assured them that they would continue to be represented in Parliament and that their rights would be protected. When a group of women asked if he would try to bring back polygamy, Khomeini gave a rare smile and answered, "One wife is enough...
Meanwhile, Soviet newspapers and radio broadcasts are filled with familiar-sounding exhortations: insulate doors and windows, keep down temperatures in apartments, try not to use scarce gas for cooking and hot-water bathing. As if surprised, the Armenian party paper Kommunist declared: "A fuel crisis is a serious, disastrous occurrence, even on the scale of a single region," Welcome to the 1970s...
...strain developed over eleven years by a Soviet scientist from Armenia. Infuriated by his government's decision to end the better-poppy-for-socialism program (his aim was to produce a more potent drug for medical use), Dr. Krikor Grotrian makes a deal to sell the seeds to an Armenian dealer, who smuggles them into Turkey. There, largely because they bear scarlet blooms rather than the more common white petals of opium flowers, they flourish undetected in the hinterland. What Grotrian does not realize is that heroin from his little flowers causes instant, hideous death. In England alone, more than...
DIED. Anastas Mikoyan, 82, Soviet politician who amazingly survived nearly 50 years of his nation's purges and upheavals and was briefly President of the U.S.S.R. (1964-65); after a long illness. Son of an Armenian carpenter, Mikoyan studied for the priesthood before joining the Bolsheviks in 1915. One of Stalin's most trusted ministers, Mikoyan became known both as a tough, wily trade negotiator well versed in capitalist business practices and as a skilled organizer who directed the evacuation of Soviet industry during World War II. After Stalin's death in 1953, he allied himself with...