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...wing National Front, nimble Premier Amini held a 90-minute conference with Front leaders, warned that 1) the Front was heavily infiltrated by Communist students and oil workers, and 2) should his government be brought down, it would be replaced by a military dictatorship headed by tough General Teymour Bakhtiar and supported by landlords and mullahs (Moslem religious leaders). General Bakhtiar makes no secret of his willingness, should the Shah call on him, to replace Amini's reformist program with simple repression. Last week the general was Jeeping through the mountainous interior of Iran, renewing old friendships with...
...Shah seems aware that something must be done. In the wake of two elections so blatantly 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...
...Virginia's Mountaineers barely staved off an embarrassing upset by rushing Virginia's Iranian Prince. Jim Bakhtiar, making him miss an extra-point kick and saving a 6-6 tie. ¶ Navy, just about the only big-time team besides Oklahoma to find it had a first-game breather, sailed past Boston College...