Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...branch of Islam split off from the main Sunni branch during the 7th century; it now predominates in Iran and much of Iraq and Lebanon...
...regime who now pose one of the gravest threats to the Shah's rule in the past 15 years. This year at least 40 people have been killed in several cities in a series of riots by the conservative Shi'ite Muslims,* Iran's main religious sect...
...want to overthrow the Shah. In addition, his rule is challenged by a group called the Unity of National Front Forces, a revived remnant of the old National Front of the late leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who was ousted after a showdown with the Shah in 1953. But the main thrust of the present opposition comes from the Shi'ite mullahs, religious leaders who are, in a sense, priests and theologians of Islam. Led by bearded, bespectacled Ayatullah Shariet-madari, 81, a kindly scholar honored through the Shi'ite world for his learning, the mullahs want Iran...
...through a complex series of levels, bridges, stairways, escalators and ramps to its culmination in the tetrahedronal space frame-skylight. This court is the "rhyme" to the West Building's cupola, but is utterly different in feeling. Here Pei has produced a ceremonial space fit to rank with the main foyer of the Paris Opera or the grandest of the 19th century's glass-and-iron railroad terminals. It projects an encompassing sense of airiness and ebullience, washed by light. From the concourse 80 ft. below, the skylight, a massive and complex structure covering 16,000 sq. ft., acquires...
Still, the main promotion and improvement of the U.S. as a tourist attraction should be left to private enterprise. As business people develop a yen for yen, marks, francs and all those other currencies, they will begin to concentrate their efforts on making the U.S. a more enticing playground and shopping center for those worldly tourists...