Word: reza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shown a willingness to open up its pocketbook to finance improvement projects deemed worthy by its regime. It was not surprising to learn this week that Harvard has signed its second contract--this time for $425,000--with the Iranian government for the development of a master plan for Reza Shah Kabir University, a proposed 500-student graduate facility in the middle of an Iranian national forest...
...Keenan's job is not that simple. Iran's leader, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who came to power by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953, runs the Middle Eastern nation as a virtual police state. With the aid of his CIA-trained SAVAK, or secret police, the Shah has jailed 100,000 political dissenters, according to Amnesty International estimates...
...many months ago, Iran's national production was growing at a dizzying rate of 42% a year. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi seemed to leaf through Aviation Week as if it were his special Sears catalogue. In the councils of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Iran took the lead in insisting that the world price of oil should be pushed ever higher...
...Iranian government has named Edward L. Keenan Jr. '57, professor of History, to the nine-man governing board of the planned Reza Shah Kebi University...
...proposed Reza Shah Kebir University (RSKU) 500-person post-doctoral institute, "will probably avoid many of the political issues" that develop in larger schools like the University of Teheran, says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for resources and planning and executive director of the commission. RSKU will be set up to create "an atmosphere that would engender scholarly research" rather than political activity, he says...