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Even before the quake struck, mourners were a common sight as families buried the victims killed two weeks ago during protests against the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Martial law prevailed, and troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Tehran and eleven other cities to enforce a rigid 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. At least eight curfew violators were shot dead for failing to heed orders to stop. Six soldiers and a civilian died in a fire fight in Tabriz after saboteurs attacked their patrol. Security was tightened around the offices and refineries of the giant National Iranian...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi declared a three-day mourning period, and the government radio broadcast readings from the Koran...
...Shah has often been criticized for enjoying a sumptuous life-style while his people suffer economic distress. His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah (King of Kings) is, at 58, trim and fit. He and his wife, Empress Farah, 40, Crown Prince Reza, 18, and three other children, shuttle among five palaces in Iran. The Shah enjoys a good game of tennis, skiing at St. Moritz, and flying his own JetStar. He works even harder than he plays, frequently putting in 15-hour days, which are often spent conferring with a handful of trusted advisers...
...country he inherited 37 years ago was not only backward and riven by tribal conflict but notoriously unstable: there had not been a single peaceful succession since Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C. In the two decades before his army officer father, Reza Shah, seized power in a military coup in 1921, there had been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied...
Deeply wounded by events spawned from his own dream for Iran, the Shah last week was searching for ways to calm his troubled people. His son, Crown Prince Reza, now in advance fighter-pilot training in Texas, telephoned his father and suggested that he try a dialogue with his opponents. It may have been good advice. With his country under martial law, the Shah's best hope now is to turn forthrightly toward the elusive, and in his case potentially hazardous, goal of democracy. If he sticks to his own target date for parliamentary elections next June, he may still...