Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possessed by an impossible dream: to create as quickly as possible a modern industrial nation in the ancient sands of Persia. It was his advantage, but perhaps also his undoing, that he had the petrodollars to pursue that goal. He carried out some land reform, but the big money went to such projects as petrochemical factories and nuclear plants. Hundreds of thousands of peasant farmers moved to the cities to get jobs. Skyscrapers soared, as did inflation-to an estimated 50% last year...
...evacuees leave behind a land spent by violence, anger and economic chaos. In the past two months, the inflation rate is believed to have risen from 50% to 200% or more. In addition to airline, Telex and telephone workers, bank employees, civil servants and teachers were all out on strike. The severest problems were caused by the virtual shutdown of the oilfields. At the huge loading terminal in the port of Kharg Island, one eyewitness told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis that Iranian workers sullenly half loaded a foreign tanker and then told its crew: "We don't need...
...secret police agents are now posted on city walls. Some parents have taken their children to grisly museums of past horrors: two houses in the capital that were allegedly used by SAVAK to torture victims. Along with the fighting that has now touched virtually every corner of the land has come a rising casualty toll. The Journalists' Syndicate and the Iranian Doctors Association estimate that over the past year, at least 10,000 civilians have died, and perhaps a hundred soldiers...
Flinty, arid Baluchistan is a sparsely populated land that only its sons could love. Corrugated by rugged mountain ranges, the area receives an average of 10 in. of rain a year, usually all at once, vs. 36.5 in. in more fertile northern Pakistan, near Kashmir. In summer, temperatures can rise to 130° F. In winter, they can fall to subfreezing levels. Desert scorpions and other noxious fauna abound. Prolonged exposure to Baluchistan can be fatal: when the army of Alexander the Great marched across it on the way home from India, two-thirds of the men died. But local...
...Baluch feel that their land is being colonized. Every year hundreds of settlers from the Punjab and Sind are assigned to the province's bureaucracy. Of the twelve provincial secretaries in Quetta, only one is Baluch. There are no Baluch on the staff that administers martial law. Among 1,120 students at the provincial university, only 269 are members of Baluch tribes...