Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the protesters do have in common is bitter frustration over the failure of many of the Shah's economic programs, the rising inflation brought on by oil wealth, the denial of political rights, and years of repressive and insensitive rule. Says a West German foreign-office expert: "For too long, the Shah paid insufficient attention to political pressure groups from right and left, dismissed them as rabble-rousers, and was convinced that his lifting Iran economically at a rapid pace would satisfy most of his people. He also thought that he could keep things under control by the traditional...
...Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C. In the two decades before his army officer father, Reza Shah, seized power in a military coup in 1921, there had been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied Iran, and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, then 22, took power. After the war, the Soviets stayed on and set up a puppet regime in the northern province...
Three of the most wanted suspects-Willy Peter Stoll, 28, Adelheid Schulz, 23, and Christian Klar, 26-had eluded the most intensive man hunt in West German history. They stayed just a tantalizing step ahead of the law, thanks largely to some of the worst police work the world has witnessed since the Keystone Kops...
...reports TIME Economic Correspondent George Taber, seems a strangely radical idea to come from Wallich, a Republican professor of economics whose pin-striped blue suits and slow, heavily technical speech make him seem the embodiment of fiscal traditionalism. But as a child in Berlin he lived through the insane German inflation of 1923-24. Once his mother gave him 105 billion marks to buy a ticket to a swimming pool that had cost 15 pfennig to enter not long before. But she miscalculated; by the time Wallich got to the pool, the price had risen to 150 billion marks...
...where it ran for five and a half years--into a popular musical. DeBroca's fable of lovable loonies running rampant in an abandoned French town during World War I has a dedicated following, may of whom aren't going to like the jazzed-up musical version, complete with German and America (not British) trenches rising from the orchestra pit, no matter how good...