Word: pahlevi
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Like any expectant father, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself drove his young wife to the hospital. It was early morning, but the Teheran streets were already thick with traffic, and the royal couple were quickly noticed. When the car stopped at the Mother's Aid Society Hospital, a crowd gathered outside. Just before noon, Queen Farah Diba, a robust, 22-year-old commoner who still holds the Iranian schoolgirls' record for the high and standing broad jump, gave birth. "Your Majesty, it's a boy!" cried Dr. Jahanshah Saleh, who is both the Queen's obstetrician and Iran's Minister...
...blue-jean-clad student of architecture in Paris. The baby came ten months later. Even the day was lucky; it was the 34th anniversary of the day the Shah's father, a onetime army non-com named Reza Khan, seized the throne by military coup and established the Pahlevi dynasty...
...hurry to build roads, dams and schools (and on the upkeep of his regime), Iran's handsome Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi has spent all the $265 million a year his country gets from oil revenues and quite a bit more. Now Iran faces a balance of payments deficit of $130 million over the next two years. Until recently, the Shah has ignored the unpopular advice of Western economic advisers, who told him the deficit could have been avoided by vigorously curbing domestic inflation, and by clamping down on the import of luxury items that use up the hard currencies...
Straight from Persepolis. The man who stands between the West and such an alarming prospect is one of the few remaining monarchs who is more than merely decorative. At 41, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shahanshah (King of Kings) of Iran, is undisputed boss of his nation. "His Imperial Majesty is above everything," a Teheran newspaper recently explained to its readers. "Constitutionally. he can appoint or dismiss a Premier as he sees fit. He can also dissolve parliament if he so chooses. He decides on which projects his country needs, bills that should be presented for passage by the legislature...
...trim, broad-shouldered man, the Shah walks with the easy grace of the trained athlete and soldier, shows aware ness of his power with every toss of his silvery royal head. Though he is only the second ruler in the Pahlevi dynasty-which dates from 1926-his profile might have been lifted straight from one of the bas-reliefs in the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis that Alexander conquered. If the Shah has little sense of humor and a prevalent cast of melancholy, it is perhaps because his life has been a sobering affair...