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...sort traditionally associated with Persia. One of Turkey's best contemporary painters is an artist named Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu, who has one foot firmly planted on either side of the Bosporus, paints pictures that could never have been done farther east of Paris or west of Bagdad...
...Shah had him fired. Next morning, the Shah slipped out to a jeweler's and selected a variety of diamond baubles for Soraya. This was a consolation gift for her agreeing to remain a while in Rome for her "health." Then he boarded a chartered K.L.M. airliner for Bagdad, where he put on his gold-braided air marshal's uniform (specially flown from Teheran). He piloted his own twin-engined Beechcraft on the final leg to his capital...
...northern Iran, at Ramsar on the Caspian Sea, where he and his pretty Queen were vacationing, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi heard the news of the failure. With Queen Soraya,* he boarded his private twin-engine plane and flew to safety in Bagdad (where he landed unrecognized, asking the name ' of a good hotel). In Teheran, Mossadegh, confined to his iron cot and closely guarded, counted one more obstacle out of his way. Now, though his unhappy country has lost one more source of stability, there was little left to challenge him except the Communist-led mobs, who now sing...
...soon tired of it. "I said to myself: 'Ahmed, you are meant to be more than an engineer.' " In World War I, he set up a contracting business of his own, landed big contracts with the British army in Damascus, picked up other odd jobs in Beirut, Bagdad and Haifa. Back in Egypt after the war, Abboud decided to buck the foreign businessmen who then monopolized the nation's industry. Starting with two British companies which handled all the dredging of Egypt's irrigation canals, Abboud badgered government authorities until they gave him some of this...
...result, murkily photographed in a process called Exotic Color, is a harem-scarum movie featuring girls in Arabian nighties, goats-milk baths, and raids on caravans laden with gold. The dialogue seems more Hollywood than Bagdad. Sample: "Sire, I have uncovered such crimes as will tear this town wide open...