Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal security force and a staff of servants-and he pays the $975-a-day bill for his New York hospital suite promptly. But the Shah last week whiled away much of his time in the unregal pastime that many hospital patients are reduced to: watching television. Said one of doctors: "He watches some real crap. Westerns. Detective movies. Bad romances...
...rate it stood in the Great Mogul Palace in Delhi, India, and was brought to Persia by a conquering Shah in the 18th century. The throne on which Mohammed Reza Pahlavi sat is a copy made during the reign of Path Ali Shah (1798-1834) and named after one of his favorites, Tavous Khanoum, or Lady Peacock. * In 1939 the Shah married Princess Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's King Farouk, who had been chosen by his father before he ever saw her. He divorced her in 1948 and married Soraya Esfandiari, whom he divorced in 1958 after...
...White House also bridled at Kissinger's statements. "He is a devious and dishonorable man," one top Carter aide told reporters. "He'll go off and make cheap political statements and then call up privately and assure us that he supports the way the President is handling the crisis...
...high priests of television could do something. They could cut down his tape and his air time. Starting with a few lines on the networks on Nov. 22, Hansen grew bigger and bigger through the next days. The TV drama took on a life of its own. One wonders whether, if Walter Cronkite had ignored him, Hansen would even have been allowed into the besieged embassy. He was, however, and that was a spectacle of sorts, but not as big as what came through the tube. By last week Hansen was more than electronic news-he was entertainment...
...Ulama denounced the seizure of the Sacred Mosque as "a highly detestable and ignoble crime and an act of atheism in the House of God." Saudi troops blasted open the doors and charged the mosque, and the place became an inferno of fire and crossfire. No one knows how many died. Many Saudi soldiers were mowed down as they charged forward, chanting "To die in this battle is to enter paradise." Mohammed's men showed surprising skill in breaking up into small groups, setting up fields of fire, and counterattacking. Prince Sultan called for reinforcements...