Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elegant tea parties for officers and their wives. This time, however, it was a day for showing strength and loyalty to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Two weeks ago, in a desperate effort to counter rising opposition to his autocratic rule, the Shah formed a military government headed by General Gholam Reza Azhari, chief of staff of the armed forces...
...calm in Tehran gave rise to some optimism, especially in Washington, that the Shah had weathered the most tempestuous period of his 37-year reign. "The most immediate danger has passed," observed an Administration policymaker. "What didn't happen may be most important: a call for a general strike was unsuccessful and new industrial protests did not take place." But the problem of keeping people on their jobs is far from resolved. As a Western diplomat observed last week, "What do you do, post a soldier with a bayonet over every worker...
...military bureaucracies in 1955, is handled at the top by a royal military staff. That makes it much more difficult for officers of the three services to get together-and possibly conspire against their commander in chief. Beyond that, leaders have been promoted as much for loyalty as ability. General Azhari, 61, the brusque, husky chief of staff who took over as Premier two weeks ago, graduated first in his class from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. But Azhari is also a trusted officer who formerly held the ultimate loyalty post, commander...
...that top officers by and large are honest. Critics insist that graft is common and condoned, and that the Shah was forced to prosecute Ata'i only because his activities, which included transporting duty-free luxury goods from the Emirate of Dubai aboard navy ships, had become a general scandal...
...wanted to find out what flying saucers and extraterrestrial beings might look like. In Superman, they will want to see if modern movie technology can make a man fly convincingly. "The film stands or falls on whether the characters appear to fly," says Terence Stamp, who plays the villainous General Zod. "If they do, the picture is a success." By Stamp's definition, at any rate, the movie will be a smash. Superman not only flies better and faster than any bird or plane, but he does aerial acrobatics that would cause an eagle to fasten its seat belt...