Word: baghai
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...rugmaking city of Kerman, anti-government Candidate Mozaffer Baghai had won three times before with large majorities; this time he was credited with only 27 votes against 2,000 for his government opponent. Baghai promptly sent a cable to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold complaining that the government "has suppressed all rights and freedoms." With equal promptness, bastless Baghai was jailed...
Outraged by the fraud, Teheran University Professor Mozaffer Baghai, once a lieutenant of ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and now an advocate of Gandhi-style protest, last week rallied 2,000 young Iranians to a meeting of his new movement, the "Protectors of Liberty." Speaking in quiet classroom tones from a stuccoed Teheran balcony, Baghai declared: "Premier Eghbal is a traitor. Among the big opium smugglers are high government officials, deputies, ministers, directors of independent agencies. Dr. Eghbal knows every one of them. If this Cabinet does not resign or is not removed, there will be an end to the Kingdom...
...losing his powerful supporters. The first to go was evil old Mullah Kashani, powerful Speaker of the Majlis (Parliament) and boss of a gang of terrorists, who once pledged Mossadegh "my entire efforts." Fed up with Kashani's flirtation with the Communists, Mossadegh broke with him. Next, Mozafar Baghai, leader of the pro-Mossadegh Toilers' Party, got too ambitious, and joined Kashani in the discard...
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