Word: qum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with rice. Along the Caspian seashore, the highways are clogged with slat-sided Mercedes trucks hauling a record cotton crop to market. The beaches bounce with bikinis, and teen-agers in Teheran have joined the Transistor Generation. The ancient, withered men of Yezd are being taught to read. In Qum and Bam, in Dizful and Gowater and 50,000 villages throughout Iran, 15 million peasants have been transformed, almost overnight in history's terms, from feudal serfs into freeholders whose land is now their...
...conservative Moslem mullahs dislike the freedom of women and the decree that shrine lands are to be shared among the peasants. It is probably significant that the soldier who tried to kill the Shah last week came from southern Iran near the nation's religious capital of Qum, a hotbed of anti-Shah feeling...
Died. Ayatollah Boroujerdi, 89, leader of the Shiites, one of the world's largest Moslem sects, spiritual guide of 70 million believers, chiefly in Iran and Iraq; of a heart attack after fasting for the holy month of Ramadan; in Qum, Iran...