Word: hedayat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground started to tremble and everything became dark," one grief-stricken survivor, Hossein Hedayat, related last week. "The buildings around began falling. I grabbed a tree and hung on. When the dust settled and I could see again, my house was gone. My wife and my daughters were dead." Kakhk was leveled to rubble, and 6,000 of its inhabitants died as it fell...
Last week Alam's anticorruption drive was in full swing. In Teheran, a military tribunal sentenced General Abdullah Hedayat, Iran's first four-star general and once a close adviser of the Shah, to two years in prison for embezzling money on military housing contracts, brushed aside his plea for appeal with the brusque explanation that "more charges are pending." The former boss of the Teheran Electricity Board was in solitary confinement for five years; cases were in preparation against an ex-War Minister and twelve other generals for graft. Said one observer: "The Shah...
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