Word: farsi
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...kind of opening wedge and then fell victim to American duplicity that cost them millions. "I have lost $3.7 million of my own money, my own hard-earned money!" screams Ghorbanifar, waving his arms wildly in an interview with TIME. "Be ki begam! Be ki begam!" That is a Farsi phrase meaning "Whom can I tell?" that he interjects virtually every two sentences...
...young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served in Tehran as deputy CIA station chief, and the Shah took a personal liking to the suave agent who spoke fluent Farsi. Cave retired from the CIA shortly after the Shah was overthrown. Yet on the arms-laden U.S. cargo plane that flew former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane into Tehran last May 28 to establish the first high-level U.S. Government contact with Iran in years, there again was Cave, representing...
...their adopted hometown of Edmonton, Alta., the immigrant Ghermezian brothers -- Eskandar, Nader, Raphael and Bahman -- are figures swaddled in rumor and mystery. Fiercely privacyminded, they refuse to divulge their exact ages and are rarely photographed together. Their rapid-fire conversations in Farsi and French often befuddle English-speaking business peers. But from behind that fog, the four Iranian natives have created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward. Before long, U.S. consumers will get a full exposure to the revolutionary marketing flair of the Ghermezians, who have...
...programming, a growing number of stations are offering polyglot schedules that amount to a microcosm of the U.S. melting pot. KSCI-TV in Los Angeles begins its day at 4 a.m. with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed by half an hour of Korean news, an Islamic educational program, a Farsi version of the Today show and, around lunchtime, a costume drama called Chinese World. WCIU-TV, Channel 26 in Chicago, carries some 60 hours a week of foreign-language programming, ranging from Club del Nino, a Hispanic children's series, to the Indian variety show Chitrahar...
These population shifts change all the bric-a-brac of life. A car in Los Angeles carries a custom license plate that says SIE SIE LI, meaning, in Chinese, "thank you." Graffiti sprayed in a nearby park send their obscure signals in Farsi. A suburban supermarket specializes in such Vietnamese delicacies as pork snouts and pickled banana buds. The Spanish-language soap opera Tu o Nadie gets the top ratings among independent stations every night...