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...line because they were outside the Tehran municipal jurisdiction. "We've paid one-third of that, but we haven't been able to get three drops of water," she complains. Meanwhile, an apartment building up the street, owned in part by the Shah's brother Gholam Reza, was instantly hooked up. "Why is he inside and why are we outside?" asks Mrs. Mokhtari...
...Ayatullah was a major force in the demonstrations which forced Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to leave the country for what many believe is a permanent exile...
...object of this criticism is CIA Director Stansfield Turner, 55, who last week was being blamed by critics for the CIA'S failure to warn the White House months ago that Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was in danger of losing his throne. Only two days after the Shah went into exile, the House International Relations Committee began hearings on the Iran crisis and the CIA's inability to predict its outcome. Acknowledged a CIA official: "The agency will go through a wringer. We'll take our lumps...
...blue. In Tehran, the throngs were filling the streets to begin once more their daily demonstrations. If the protesters had looked upward, they would have seen a blue and white Boeing 727 swing over the city, circle once and turn away. The pilot of that plane was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, taking a long, perhaps last look at the capital of his realm. For years he had lived under the illusion that he was a monarch beloved by his 34 million subjects; for years he had harbored the conviction that his leadership was bringing all the benefits of national wealth...
...seems to have been channeled in more or less the same direction ever since: his first book, Discovery of the Secrets, decried "the plots and plans which the father of the present Shah made with other leaders of neighboring countries," adding that "the orders of the dictatorial state of Reza Khan [the Shah's father] have no value. All the laws approved by Parliament should be burned...