Word: mashhad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah was inexplicably absent from the ceremonies and failed to take the customary salute. Nonetheless, for the first time in the past two months, the capital appeared to have recovered a semblance of normality. Sporadic violence and protest demonstrations persisted in some outlying provinces; in the northeastern city of Mashhad, three people by official account -13 according to anti-Shah sources -were killed when troops fired on demonstrators. But most of the country's striking workers went back to their jobs, including employees of Iran Air, as well as transportation, communications, customs and steel personnel. So did most...
Last month Georgetown University signed what is probably the largest deal so far with Iran-an $11.5 million, five-year agreement to help Ferdowsi University in the holy city of Mashhad create, among other things, schools of engineering, agriculture and economics. In other recently signed contracts with U.S. colleges, Iran awarded...