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...Shawcross does not allow the reader to forget that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, was a pathetic symbol of a corrupt and repressive regime. His fate was to be thrust, ill-suited by temperament or training, into the leadership of a nation whose strategic geography and petroleum resources dictated a major role in the 20th century. Publicly he professed a grand vision, a White Revolution that would modernize his nation. Privately he played the Oriental potentate, surrounded by toadies, pimps and the kitschy trappings of new wealth...
...than $100 million. The government said 900 people were ! arrested, and without disclosing figures admitted that people on both sides were killed during battles between protesters and security forces. Whatever the toll, the outburst jolted Bendjedid's ten-year-old regime, which has sought to revive the country's petroleum-depressed economy with an austerity program that included cuts in subsidies for food and other commodities. The result has been sharply rising prices: a pound of beef now costs about $12. With popular discontent still unaddressed, the outlook could well be for further unrest...
However the transfer of property has been held up because the the church is still responsible for cleaning lead, arsenic and petroleum residues found on the lot in September...
...large parking lot behind Quincy House on DeWolfe St., where developer H.J. Davis plans to build condominiums, has residues of lead, arsenic and petroleum under the blacktop, and St. Paul's Parish, which agreed to sell Davis the land, must pay to clean...
Engineers testing the St. Paul's parking lot found small amounts of chemicals including lead, arsenic and petroleum, said Powers...