Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verses from the Holy Koran echoed in the sumptuous banquet hall of the garish new six-story hotel that stands almost alone in Pakistan's still abuilding capital of Islamabad. While Britain's Prince Philip and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aram looked on, Pakistan's chief justice pronounced an oath's solemn words. Outside, a 21-gun salute boomed across the green Potwar Plateau. So last week Mohammed Ayub Khan, 57, was inaugurated as Pakistan's first elected President...
...Russian citizen, a Zoroastrian priest, and a Cambridge University lecturer will give Harvard's first courses on modern Iranian literature, religion, and history this semester...
Reshat M. Aliyev will teach Iranian 176, Persian Literature. Aliyev is the first Russian citizen to give a regular course at Harvard, according to Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian...
Frey said last night that the increased published literature of the Persian countries and their nationalistic spirit have spurred this sudden, "push" on Iranian studies...
...replace the murdered Premier, the Shah appointed Mansur's boyhood friend and chief aide, Finance Minister Amirabass Hoveida, 45. Trained as a political economist and career diplomat, Hoveida also served briefly as chairman of the National Iranian Oil Co. He will probably need all his financial experience; despite mounting oil revenues, Iran faces a growing fiscal squeeze aggravated by the high cost of public works and industrialization projects, last year's drought and declining U.S. aid. New Premier Hoveida took up his complex tasks with the promise that "except for the sad absence of Mansur, nothing is changed...