Word: reza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERSIAN GULF. Poor intelligence and diplomatic shortsightedness have trapped the U.S. in an increasingly difficult position in Iran. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi could fall any hour, yet Carter has found no course but to continue supporting him, at least publicly. The fall of the Shah, which many now predict, would change the equations of power, from Egypt and Ethiopia all the way east to Pakistan. The helplessness of the U.S. to shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that...
...finally, the week in which the once proud and orderly kingdom of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi seemed almost beyond recall. The streets of Tehran rocked with pitched battles. More than 20 demonstrators lay dead, hundreds were wounded in battles with the Shah's soldiers. A crippling strike by oilfield workers shut off the Iranian petroleum spigot and plunged the economy into chaos. Banks, schools and stores were closed. Iran Air, the national airline, canceled all flights. Bus service halted. The nation was on its knees and, were nothing done, would soon be prostrate. His earlier attempts to establish...
Speaking at the Sheraton Boston Hotel before addressing a retailers' convention. Ford said it was "unconscionable of some people" to hesitate to give Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi full support...
...Alan Heimert, master of Eliot House, tells residents of that House that he has restricted access to their dining hall to only blonde-haired males carrying squash racquets. The chairman of the Eliot House Committee explains that the action has been taken for the protection of the vacationing Reza Pahlevi. Heimert declines to confirm or deny the explanation...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's national security advisor, said yesterday Carter would reiterate his support for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who has the support of the other three leaders as well...