Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villagers' immediate needs. There were only 400 clustered around him; 3.000 of Buin's 6,500 people had perished in one horrifying minute. The earthquake that demolished Buin and 100 other villages had already accounted for some 10.000 deaths; hundreds more were reported daily as masked Iranian soldiers shoveled through the debris in search of bodies...
...Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class of an orphan asylum. Out of this grew a healthy new Iranian textbook industry...
...Iranian embassies around the world firmly denied the press reports that Queen Farah, 24, was expecting a second child-until someone thought to check with the lady herself. "Yes," said the young Queen, "some time in March." Two years ago, when Farah presented the Shah with his first male heir in three marriages, he cut income taxes by 20%, and his subjects went wild with joy. But with Iran's Peacock Throne already promised to the tiny crown prince, Teheran took the news of a second blessed event in stride. The Queen says she hopes for a girl this...
...budget. Last week, faced by a deficit of at least $85 million, he sorrowfully turned in his resignation to the Shah. Amini at first blamed lack of U.S. aid for his downfall; he has long felt that Washington is more generous to neutralists, particularly Egypt, than to its Iranian ally. Next day Amini withdrew the accusation...
Said Ebtehaj last week as he drove off from jail with his wife and 4½-year-old daughter: "Thus ends a tragicomic opera of Iranian justice...