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...rumors swirled like the desert sands. An Iranian gendarmery column reported itself close on the heels of a group of native women and children believed to have the foreign woman among them: a nomad tribesman told of seeing a white-faced woman riding on muleback. The governor of remote Iranshahr reportedly got a message from Dadshah himself, saying Mrs. Carroll was "alive and well'' and offering to free her if granted amnesty. A doctor and nurse, sent by the U.S. embassy in Teheran, hurried to the spot. This week, in a desert gully only two miles from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Trail of Torn Paper | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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