Word: reza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement last week that Harvard has signed a new $425,000 contract with the government of Iran to formulate a "Master Plan" for the proposed 500-student Reza Shah Kabir graduate research facility came as a surprise to no one. Harvard has now been involved in the Iranian project for a year and a half, and the continuation of the undertaking into this next stage represents a show of confidence on the part of the Iranian government--that Harvard, for the right price, will do the bidding of even the most totalitarian regime. Harvard acknowledges the totalitarian nature...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has tried to crack down on corruption. Recently, 17,000 Tehran shopkeepers, butchers, grocers and other small businessmen were arrested for price gouging. A new law combats pol-e-chah by making contractors submit affidavits revealing payments to local middlemen and influence peddlers. Various other laws aim at redistributing wealth. Businessmen must now turn over 20% of their profits to their workers, and employees are allowed to buy as much as 49% ownership in their companies...
While the two contracts for a total of $825,000 to develop plans for the proposed Reza Shah Kabir graduate research facility have generated considerable publicity since the first contract was signed in 1974, two additional contracts have remained largely unpublicized...
Harvard has already received $400,000 from the Iranian government for drawing up theoretical plans for Reza Shah Kabir, and the new contract represents a feeling on the part of the Iranians that Harvard's planners are the best men for the job. And Harvard is resolutely brushing whatever ideological differences it may have with the Iranian regime under...
...Edward L. Keenan Jr. '57, professor of History and a member of the nine-man governing board of Reza Shah Kabir, said the Iranian government "was apparently happy with the general things that Harvard did, so they wanted them to do more...