Word: hassanali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raising the war cry "Down with the undemocratic regime of the Shah," Moslem extremists are fighting reforms with terror. In the last 16 years, three Iranian leaders have been murdered and a fourth narrowly escaped. The latest victim: Premier Hassanali Mansur, 41, who died last week after having been shot by a young Moslem terrorist at the gates of the Iranian Parliament...
...Died. Hassanali Mansur, 41, Iran's reform-minded Premier; by assassination; in Teheran (see THE WORLD...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, changes Premiers as casually as other men change suits. In Teheran last week, he courteously turned out Assadollah Alam, the 17th Premier in the Shah's 22-year reign, and appointed as Premier No. 18 elegant Hassanali Mansur, who holds a degree in economics and political science from Paris University and is married to an Iranian beauty and heiress named Farideh Emami...
...Hassanali Mansur began grooming himself for the premiership in 1961 when he established a 194-man committee of fellow experts to draw up plans for economic and administrative improvements in Iran. His new Cabinet is composed of 22 technicians, whose average age is 42; while, at 40, Mansur himself is Iran's youngest Premier in 40 years...
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