Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terminal-the Portuguese Mozambique port of Beira, which is connected with landlocked Rhodesia by a 187-mile pipeline. For weeks British warships had discouraged tankers from putting into Beira. Undaunted, one of Raphaely's ships, flying a Greek flag, quietly loaded 18,000 tons of crude in the Iranian port of Bandar Mashur and steamed around the northern coast of Africa to Dakar, where it changed its name to Ioanna V and hoisted a Panamanian flag. Outside Beira, the British frigate Plymouth warned the tanker to keep on going, and the Greek government, which had banned all oil shipments...
...attempts), and the experiences have brought Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi a good deal closer to Allah, says a friend. In any case, the Shah does not like Gamal Abdel Nasser's frequent attacks calling him an infidel. So to emphasize his pride in being a good Moslem, the Iranian ruler ordered the printing of a new edition of the Koran at his own expense ($250,000 so far). Using a previously unreproduced 16th century version by Calligrapher Ahmed Neirizi, 40 experts spent a year re-checking every word; then the Shah announced that the first 3,000 copies...
...IRAN Volunteers in secondary schools will work with Iranian counterparts to raise the level of English language instructions. Those with MA's in English will work in colleges and universities training English teachers...
...also charged that in 1953 th CIA "led the overthrow of Iranian Premier Mossadeph, and engineered the ouster of the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954. It has engaged in independent subversive activities in Eastern Europe, Burma, China, Indonesia, Costa Rica, and others...
...BEGGAR, by F. M. Esfandiary. In this ghastly little parable, an Iranian-in-exile ironically illustrates the intrinsic injustice of human justice...