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...important leaders. As a physician who has spent 50 years working in more than 20 countries, I have always dreamed that there would someday be enough money for the control of diseases in underdeveloped countries. Perhaps my dreams will come true through the immense generosity of that couple. Fereydoun Arfaa Danville, California, U.S. After reading about Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, I am getting a membership to Costco and will never again darken the doorway of Wal-Mart. It seems that Sinegal understands what many companies knew 50 years ago: if you take good care of good employees, they will serve...
...FEREYDOUN ARFAA Danville, Calif...
...life, the former Shah was remembered more generously by foreigners than by his own people. Some of the harshest judgments had been pronounced by those who had faithfully, and sometimes servilely, worked under the Shah. "He was essentially a weak man who played the role of the dictator," said Fereydoun Hoveida, who for seven years was the Shah's Ambassador to the United Nations...
...take any prisoners. Kill them." In a confession interspersed with sobs, Bahman Naderipour described how he and other agents, in response to this order, took nine political prisoners out of Evin jail in northwest Tehran, handcuffed and blindfolded them and then machine-gunned them. He and another agent, Fereydoun Tavangari, said that SAVAK murdered other prisoners in their cells, then turned their bodies over to police medical examiners with an explanation that they had been killed in gun fights while resisting arrest...
...Fereydoun Hoveida, 54, has taken the advice that personnel experts usually dish out to business executives who get the sack: Use your new free time doing something you have been wanting to do. Hoveida, fired as Iran's longtime United Nations ambassador by the revolutionary regime, is devoting his time to writing and art. The deposed diplomat, who in the past penned essays, film criticisms and six novels, has turned to nonfiction: the events that led to the downfall of the Shah and the execution of Hoveida's older brother, former Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida. Meanwhile, a Manhattan...