Word: emami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's economy. He cut inflation from 31% to 8%, cracked down on wealthy tax dodgers, purged the civil service of crooks and incompetents. But the reforms came far too late, and the rioting only grew worse. Early last week the Shah replaced Amuzegar with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, 67, a former Premier who is himself known as a devout Muslim. The Shah's charge to his new Premier: mollify the mullahs...
...Sharif-Emami proceeded to do just that. Within 48 hours his government declared that the Shah's recently restored imperial calendar would be scrapped and replaced by the old Islamic calendar that the Muslim religious leaders had been demanding.* The government further announced that the country's eight big gambling casinos, including the four owned by the Shah's charitable Pahlavi Foundation, would be shut down. The post of Minister of State for Women's Affairs was abolished to appease the mullahs, who claimed that liberalization policies in women's rights were undermining the sanctity...
...Shah's forward-looking Premier, Jamshid Amouzegar, had better luck coping with the problems of industrialization than negotiating with Shi'ite mullahs. Unable to bridge the gap between mullahs and modernists, the otherwise able Amouzegar resigned early this week, and the Shah quickly replaced him with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, chairman of the Iranian Senate...
Divorced. Amir Abass Hoveida, 52, Premier of Iran since the 1965 assassination of his predecessor Hassan AH Mansur; and Leyla Emami Hoveida, 38, Mansur's sister-in-law; after five years of marriage, no children; in Teheran...