Word: gulistan
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...Moreover, in attempting to point a finger at Britain for its troubles, the Iranian government can tap a rich vein of mistrust for its former imperial ruler. Many Iranians remember the British-brokered Treaty of Gulistan, under which Iran was forced to give up land to Russia in 1813, as one of the most humiliating episodes in their country's history. Hostilities sparked again in 1941, when the U.K. invaded Iran and exiled the country's leader on suspicion of pro-German sympathies. Furthering the mistrust, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq dared to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company...
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...that serious boycott preparations started only in January. One problem they face is that much of Stevens' output is unfinished cloth sold to other manufacturers, and the company's own consumer products sell under a bewildering variety of private labels and brand names, including Utica blankets and Gulistan carpets. Some, like Yves Saint Laurent sheets, bear designer names. Nonetheless, ACTWU is printing up thousands of wallet-sized cards listing labels, and plans to take ads in local papers to persuade housewives to boycott Stevens...
...remarkable to most other U.S. city editors. Nor is Rosenthal's conviction that a city cannot be covered from a desk exactly revolutionary. But then the Times is the Times, and New York is New York. Traditionally, Times readers have been better informed about events in Ghana or Gulistan than developments in their own backyard. One reason is that even with the Times's resources, covering New York City and its populous suburbs is a herculean problem. The megalopolis, from Greenwich, Conn., to Greenwich Village, East Hampton to the West 90s, encompasses one of the world...
...original Peacock Throne of Iran taken from Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739 has disappeared. The Peacock throne now in the Gulistan Palace, Teheran (see cut) was built in the early loth century by an Isfahan jeweler for Path Ali Shah and was originally called the Sun Throne. There is another throne in the Istanbul museum which is referred to as a Peacock throne...