Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jalaal Aal-Ahmad, an Iranian short story writer and essayist, felt that certain men "can not and should not be harnessed by the rules of morality." He noted that the use of "so-called sexual immorality" in the works of these men should not be condemned...
...ship (three each for adults and children-all outdoors and heated) and more art than several substantial museums. It has 30 bars, lounges and public galleries, and in its ample pantries carries 23,000 liters of wine, 3,500 liters of champagne and Asti Spumante and 330 Ibs. of Iranian caviar. The ship also carries, however, a technical flaw common to many new ships: strong vibrations caused by slight faults in the propellers, which will be replaced when it returns to Genoa...
This week Soviet shipping and trade enter what the Russians hope will be a new era. In the Iranian port of Naushahr, a 4,000-ton Soviet vessel will begin loading for a 4,300-mile voyage to Hamburg, Germany, over a new inland waterway that stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Baltic, ranks as one of the world's longest waterways. The route will cut the average shipping time from Iran to Germany from 50 to 25 days. It will slice 2,700 miles from the previous circuitous route, which took ships through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean...
...astounding fact is that 85% of the world's supply of this capitalist treat comes from the Caspian Sea, and all Caspian sturgeon breed in a single 1,000-acre sand-and-gravel spawning ground near the mouth of Russia's Volga River-even those caught in Iranian waters. An article in Russia's highbrow literary newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, signed by a group of intellectuals that included eight biologists, contained a dire warning that the completion of a projected hydroelectric power station would reduce the spawning grounds to a mere 22 acres...
...program will open at 10 a.m. with a welcoming address by Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian and the seminar's chairman. Rashid M. Allyev visiting professor of Persian Literature, will speak on "Modern Persian Literature in Perspective" at 10:30 a.m.; Mhedi Y. Haery, a special student in the Divinity School, will discuss "Islam and State in Iran" at 11:30 a.m.; and Darius Homayoun, an Associate Nieman Fellow, will comment on "The Political Development of Iran...