Word: personales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I object to your casting those who attended programs conducted at the center, Shanti-Nilaya, as people who "needed to believe." Some of us brought to the workshop great personal convictions about our Christian faith and about the needs of the dying. Have the courtesy to inform your readers that...
Whatever the size of the Shah's personal fortune, he ran a corrupt government from first to last. Foreign companies frequently had to pay "commissions" to government officials or members of the royal family to get any kind of contract in Iran. One example: between 1973 and 1975 the...
Author Graham believes that the Shah's motives in tolerating the corruption, and in guiding the network of investments of the Pahlavi Foundation, were less personal aggrandizement than a desire to retain tight control of the Iranian economy and win the loyalty of subordinates by lavish financial favors. Nonetheless...
The Shah systematically dismantled the judicial system of Iran and the country's guarantees of personal and social liberties. His regime consistently violated the codes of law and justice, destroying the dignity of our people by treating them like backward savages to be pulled with an iron hand out of...
For much of the game, Walter Brown resembled the Boston Garden--during a Celtics game, not a Bruins game. Whistle after whistle after whistle could have prompted the casual observer to hunt for personal fouls and traveling violations, but through it all the icemen stayed tough.