Word: khans
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Despite his dynastic pretensions, the Shah was not to the monarchy born. His commoner father Reza Khan, a hot-tempered colonel in the Persian Cossack cavalry, seized power in a bloodless coup in 1921. He forced parliament to dissolve the decadent, 129-year-old Qajar dynasty in 1925 and proclaim him Shah. He took Pahlavi-an ancient Persian language -as his dynastic name. Following his coronation, his first-born son Mohammed Reza, then seven, was designated crown prince. The elder Shah paraded the child around in gold-encrusted uniforms, groomed him in sports and, when he was twelve, packed...
...most local experts disagree with Whelan and the government. Richard Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, calls Carter's measures "absolutely incredible" and "stupid." "The idea is just wrong," Frye says, adding, "The Iranian government is not going to be moved to release the hostages by this action." Roger Fisher '43, Williston Professor of Law, who has written extensively about the situation in Iran, argues that the White House has made "a great mistake to respond to the madness in Iran by madness over here...
MARRIED. Mukarram Jah Barkat Ali Khan, 45, eighth Nizam (ruler) of the former Indian principality of Hyderabad and heir to what was one of the world's great fortunes; and Helen Simmons, 31, daughter of a retired Australian steel executive and mother of the couple's 15-month-old son Azam; he for the second time, she for the first; in Perth, Australia, where he has a half-million-acre sheep ranch...
...dusty field radios were pulled from under a bed; the battery cavity of each was being used as a repository for prayer beads. Inadequate weaponry and supply does not seem to affect the fighting spirit. "It is all in a man's thinking," explains Guerrilla Leader Chandra Khan. "You look in that corner and see 'only three Kalashnikov rifles.' I see three Kalashnikovs and three dead Russians...
Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian who returned from Teheran on Monday, said yesterday the White House letter sent to Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is a positive step toward resolving the hostage situation, but Frye added that he does not expect the hostages to be released soon...