Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's 59th birthday, 1,126 political prisoners were released, bringing the total to more than 2,700 over the past two months. Many of the former inmates immediately went to newspapers with grim tales of the tortures to which they had been subjected. Last week, for the first time, Iranians read about the horrors that much of the rest of the world already knew: the "Apollo machine," a chair in which prisoners were tied while their feet were slashed and they were tortured with electric shock; the "helmet," a metal apparatus designed to make the victim...
...staunchly committed to the Shah. "Our friendship and our alliance with Iran is one of the important bases on which our entire foreign policy depends," the President told Crown Prince Reza, a student at the U.S. Air Force Academy, when he visited the White House on his 18th birthday last week. "We're thankful for his move toward democracy," Carter added, referring to the Shah's political reforms. "We know it is opposed by some who don't like democratic principles, but his progressive-administration is very valuable, I think, to the entire Western world...
...banana republic's birthday...
There were gifts aplenty last week at a birthday party for the world's newest nation, which happens to be a real banana republic. The tiny Commonwealth of Dominica (pop. 78,000), a 290-sq.-mi. speck in the Lesser Antilles, earns 70% of its $12 million export revenues from the serviceable fruit, and it has replaced Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with a ceremonial President. Nonetheless, the Queen's younger sister, a newly thinned-down Princess Margaret, presided over the independence ceremonies that made Dominica the Western Hemisphere's 30th sovereign state...
...only Benedict exempted from chores is two-year-old Luke, and even he tours the fields regularly, bouncing on his father's lap in a pickup truck (his present on his second birthday: a toy tractor). Besides the supervision and paperwork, Pat labors with his hands too, doing most of the machinery repairs himself...