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...black robe and turban, "one side is shooting and the other is screaming. We must find a way to create a cease-fire to give the Shah a chance to prove what he is promising." In the long run, Hejazi believes, the Shah might stay on as a constitutional ruler. "But what we have in mind is an Islamic democratic government," he continued. "The mullahs would not actually serve in the government, but when the people ask for recommendations, we would suggest appropriate people for positions of political leadership...
...least in Lynley's latest film, The Shape of Things to Come, based on H.G. Wells' science-fiction thriller. When Lynley, 36, arrived on the set, she learned that her costume was to be "a unisex Mao outfit." Nevertheless, she was cheered by her role as Niki, ruler of a planet named Delta III. "I'm called 'Governor,' not 'Governess' of the planet," says Lynley matter-of-factly. "Apparently there is no delineation of sex in the future...
...down the unclean; blood, they said, must flood the world to the height of a horse's head. They were finally exterminated after committing uncounted murders. In 1535 an army of Anabaptists under Jan Bockelson proclaimed its intention "to kill all monks and priests and all rulers that there are in the world; for our king alone is the rightful ruler." They, too, had to be forcibly suppressed. Cultists, of course, are sometimes the victims of persecution. The heretical Albigensians, or Cathari, were broken by church crusade and massacre in the 13th century...
...Shah of Shahs, ruler of Iran's Peacock Throne, once dreamed of lifting his country's backward economy at breakneck speed into the 21st century. Now that dream has been battered by months of rioting and country-wide strikes. The economy that Iranians confidently predicted would soon match that of West Germany or Japan now seems destined to compare with that of Turkey or Southern Italy...
This sharp dissent to the "get big or get out" philosophy comes from, of all people, David Garst, 52, the ruler of a family agribusiness empire big enough to make him a prairie Rockefeller. Based in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the business includes 8,000 acres on which the Garsts raise seed corn and breeding cattle, as well as a grain-elevator and storage operation, machinery manufacturing, the preparation and sale of agricultural chemicals, five banks and an insurance company. The Garst assets, which are divided among David, one brother, three sisters and their children, probably total more than $50 million...