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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharietmadari told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn: "In the eyes of the nation, this incident is enough to cause a revolution in Iran. [The authorities] stopped cables being sent to me, but still the people came to me asking for the order to make a revolution. I advised them to remain quiet. But an attack on a Shi'ite leader will never be forgotten by the people." The roots of the recent trouble, charged Sharietmadari, lay in "many illegal actions in the past, such as torture, censorship of writings, the behavior of civil servants who encourage bribery." He demanded full...
Although no one seriously thinks that the Shah, who is 58, is about to allow full political freedom, he apparently believes that some liberalization is necessary if the country is to remain stable through any period of succession. (Crown Prince Reza, who becomes 18 this year, is next in line to rule.) Last August, faced with discontent over the skyrocketing cost of living and government-ordered power cutbacks that caused several hundred million dollars in industrial losses, the Shah named Jamshid Amuzegar, 54, the country's tough oil and energy negotiator, as Premier. Amuzegar took swift action against inflation...
...without rubber overshoes, and eleventh-graders had to ask permission to go to the bathroom during study hours. Then came the virulent student discontent of the late '60s. After some bitter rear-guard struggles, the schools emerged with female students (of the top schools, only Deerfield and Lawrenceville remain all male) and far more freedom: relaxed dress codes; fewer required chapels, meals and study halls; more weekends away. "We treat them like human beings now," says Exeter Principal Stephen Kurtz, "not just as pupils...
...leased from the camp in 1953: "Only on the threshold of the guardhouse do you begin to feel that what you are leaving be hind you is both your prison and your homeland. This was your spiritual birthplace, and a secret part of your soul will remain here forever - while your feet trudge on into the dumb and unwelcoming expanse of freedom...
...took me two hours to get four lousy boxes out of the raunchiest trash bins you've ever seen," a sophomore who wished to remain unidentified said yesterday...