Word: reza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teheran, le grand Charles was welcomed by Iran's Shahanshah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and his lovely Empress, Farah Diba-who share dulcet memories of France, since the Shah first met his young Queen-to-be while she was an architecture student in Paris. Through flag-bedecked streets rode De Gaulle in a gilded state carriage. Along the route, crowds chanted "Zindehbad [long live] De Gaulle," which turned out to be a particularly poetic cheer, since the visitor's name sounds like "Two Flowers" in Farsi, the Persian tongue. Ignoring Draconian security measures, Two Flowers moved right into...
Iranians turned out in record numbers last week for a parliamentary election that ended 28 months of government by royal decree. The result was a lopsided victory for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, whose sweeping, courageous reforms have made him the darling of the downtrodden...
...Corruption is the lubricant of the Iranian economy," a diplomat in Teheran once observed. Depending on the size of the pishkash (bribe), justice was bought and sold, tax rights were purchased, government jobs auctioned off, contracts given, and conscription was waived. Sporadic efforts by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to clean things up usually ended dismally in a disastrous series of acquittals, and cases dropped for lack of evidence...
Thus last week Iran's huge, $67.2 million "Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi Dam." highest in the Middle East* went into operation as another feather in the crown of the country's 43-year-old reform-minded monarch. To help finance the dam. the World Bank loaned Iran $42 million, but the rest of the cash came from the Shah's $300 million annual oil revenues. To oversee the project. Iran picked two ex-chairmen of the U.S.'s Tennessee Valley Authority. David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who now head a Manhattan-based consulting firm...
Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 43, Shah of Iran, and Farah Diba, 24, his third wife: their second child, first daughter; in Teheran...