Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disclaimed Bridge. The strife extended to the waters of the Gulf that separates the two countries. Iran refused to ratify a 1965 agreement dividing the Gulf into Saudi and Iranian zones, and Arabian newspapers blossomed with maps labeling it the "Arabian Gulf." When an Aramco drilling team, with Saudi approval, began working in the same waters as the Iranian concessionaire, a joint venture by Iranians and Standard Oil of Indiana, one of the Shah's gunboats arrested the oilmen...
...Iranian students in the United States, however, see the Shah in a different light. Like many of the Latin American rulers Harvard has so honored, the Shah is considerably less popular with his own people than with American observers. The Iranian Students Association in the United States announced that it rejected the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and the students picketed outside Harvard Yard during the Shah's address...
...wells up in the vast, arid reaches of northeastern Iran, improbable pockets of green blossom in the hostile landscape. People gather in isolated hamlets and towns to scratch out their precarious, remote existence. One such town was Kakhk, a cluster of blue-plastered, mud-brick buildings where 7,000 Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to 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...
Reading the Koran. But nowhere was the devastation more complete than at Kakhk, which is located near the epicenter of the original quake. The stench of death hung everywhere as Iranian soldiers, Boy Scouts and teen-age volunteers, their faces covered with protective handkerchiefs, dug frantically into the rubble. More than 40 hours after the earthquake, one grandmother was found safe beneath a fallen archway, reading the Koran to her three-year-old grandson. Few of the searches were so well rewarded...
...Iranian government moved quickly to help the living. Within 48 hours, survivors in the major villages received emergency supplies, and Iranian air force C-130s were soon parachuting tents and blankets to hamlets unreachable by road. Nothing more could be done for the dead. Four days after the earthquake, the government reluctantly ordered in bulldozers to turn what once were the victims' homes into their permanent graves. The leveled villages will be abandoned, and new ones built nearby for the survivors...