Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the Presidium. By late that afternoon it was clear that he had refused to accept the proffered "promotion," and that the showdown Khrushchev had hoped to avoid was under way. So lengthy was the debate that Khrushchev and other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. The Tass account of Zhukov's arrival shrank...
...mills. Not only that, said Ebtehaj, but the conditions of labor recalled the early phase of the Industrial Revolution. "There was child labor working twelve to 14 hours a day for 15? and nonpayment of workers' health-insurance premiums−or any taxes, for that matter." Though the Iranian government has since moved to prevent the recurrence of such abuses, Ebtehaj conceded wistfully that underdeveloped lands need not only capital and technical know-how but the fair play traditions embodied in "your Common...
...capital-exporting countries preferably invest in areas where they find preconditions legally and psychologically favorable . . . Examples of violations of private foreign rights, both in highly developed and less developed countries, are known to us all. Among the more recent are the methods applied in nationalizing properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., in expropriating the United Fruit Co. properties by Guatemala, and finally in expropriating the Suez Canal." Abs also cited instances of indirect interferences with the rights of private foreign capital. Among them: the withholding of essential raw materials, the refusal of import licenses and excessive taxation...
Since he visited Russia previously during the summer of 1955, Frye stated that he was able to compare his observations. At that time he made an extensive tour of Central Asia, studying his specialty, Iranian and Central Asian linguistics and history...
...Virginia's Mountaineers barely staved off an embarrassing upset by rushing Virginia's Iranian Prince. Jim Bakhtiar, making him miss an extra-point kick and saving a 6-6 tie. ¶ Navy, just about the only big-time team besides Oklahoma to find it had a first-game breather, sailed past Boston College...