Word: reza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...establishment of a U.N.-sponsored international commission before which Iran's new rulers could state their grievances against the U.S. and deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. At his news conference, Carter said that "an appropriate commission with a carefully defined purpose would be a step toward resolution of this crisis." Exactly who devised this concept has become a matter of hot controversy between Carter and Ted Kennedy in their battle for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination...
...backers began switching to Carter during the Iranian crisis. Said Detroit Air Traffic Clerk Betsy McCamman, 29: "It's not what Carter did, it's what he didn't do. He didn't overreact." Then Kennedy dismayed still other backers by attacking deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. To James Schroeder, 33, a hotel bellman in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this was "dirty pool." Said he: "If anything, Kennedy should have attacked the militants. He should have supported the President." Complained Richard Maynard, 30, a high school social studies teacher in Philadelphia: "There was a move for national...
...doctor of law, a career diplomat in the Austrian foreign service, staid, elegant Kurt Waldheim had never confronted such a scene. Several hundred maimed Iranians, all veterans of the rioting that toppled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi a year ago, shook their crutches and artificial limbs at the United Nations Secretary-General as they swarmed around him at a former military officers' club in Tehran. "Waldheim, look at us," shouted one of the wounded demonstrators. "Give the Shah back to us!" One man plucked out his glass eye and shouted: "That's what the Shah did to me!" Another...
...year-old photograph of him kissing the hand of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the Shah's twin sister. Read the caption in the evening daily Kayhan: "Kurt Waldheim in his previous trip to Tehran-he and Ashraf have raised their glasses in a toast to the archtraitor Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, marking his victory in the massacre and torture of the defenseless and innocent Iranian nation," A morning newspaper, the Islamic Republic, published another old photograph of Waldheim shaking hands with the Shah, whose face was blotted out by the editors with a Star of David. Read the caption: "Waldheim hand...
After the four clergymen left Iran, the Ayatullah's Revolutionary Council considered dropping its plans for an international grand jury to investigate U.S. activities in Iran during the 25-year rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The tribunal is intended by the Iranians to arrive at a predetermined verdict: condemnation of the Shah and of the U.S. But some Western diplomats believe that Khomeini would then order the release of the hostages...