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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...self-help ideas. They want to increase exchange of scholars, students and artists with the U.S.-and give Formosa's intellectuals something to stay home for. They propose new cooperative ventures with U.S. universities, from science to Oriental religion. They emphasize that the island itself is a unique classroom for studying the mainland. One idea: a center to collate information on Communist China for Western scholars...
...according to the Church doctrine, all can be traced to the Federal Government: "Private slums are spreading through the rotting core of our big cities. Our private automobiles are stalled in traffic jams, while rapid public transportation, for lack of funds, lags 20 years behind. Public education flounders. The classroom shortage has not been met. To sweeten private life, our stores display a billion bottles of deodorant; yet a modest bill to reduce the stench from our polluted public rivers was vetoed. We have cared so much about 'conspicuous consumption' that our lives are cluttered with gadgets," while...
...professors from far away are bringing a new kind of study to the region. There is a rare, informal atmosphere to the school, with plenty of classroom give and take. Says Student Ozcan Esmer, 21: "In other universities students have only one instructor, who talks all the time, and you don't dare ask advice or questions." The students learn practical answers to practical problems that they can see all around their underdeveloped land. And by learning on home ground they are in a better position than many students who go abroad and come back filled with knowledge that...
Plenty of Help. Once the basic courses are worked out and preliminary tests written, the biologists will put their ideas to classroom test. Later this summer, ten volunteer students will try the courses and offer criticism. This fall the new methods will be tested in 105 selected high schools around the U.S.; the group will do more revising and expand the test to 500 schools in the 1961-62 school year. By the summer of 1962, A.I.B.S. expects to have its material well enough in hand to put into final textbook form...