Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the heavy casualties, most Iranians appear to embrace both the war and the changes the Ayatullah Khomeini has introduced since he overthrew the Shah in 1979. One small demonstration for a peace settlement took place in downtown Tehran in early April, but the conflict generally remains a popular, unifying force. On street corners people donate money and jewelry to the war effort, while children drop coins in plastic piggy-type banks shaped like hand grenades. Diplomats estimate that the country is spending as much as $5 billion of its $7 billion annual budget on the war against Iraq. Religion...
...were hottest around the world. After seeing action as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he was attached to a CIA force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic equipment to the Shah's secret police...
Such was the hullabaloo last week surrounding the death of Andy Warhol at New York Hospital, an institution almost as well known for its celebrity patients (John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, the Shah of Iran) as for its skilled surgical staff. The scandal was the second in just four weeks to engulf the medical center. In March the hospital admitted to having provided inadequate care for 18-year-old Libby Zion, the daughter of Sidney Zion, a locally prominent journalist-lawyer. She died March 5, 1984, less than eight hours after being admitted with a high fever and earache...
...thing, she became an autobiographer who, in the great tradition, bares just enough to keep it interesting but not enough to worry the censors. Her offscreen memoirs offer a short course in studio politics and a long list of amours, including Hughes, Robert Taylor, Robert Stack, the Shah of Iran's brother, Billy Wilder, Burt Lancaster and, most notably, Aly Kahn ("He didn't take a woman, he tasted and taunted"). In his musical Follies, Stephen Sondheim wrote a song for the actress, I'm Still Here, about a survivor. After nearly half a century in the business, De Carlo...
...weekend jaunt to a nearby cave yields a dying man and then, in short order, a corpse for which none of the local authorities will accept responsibility. Chloe begins to suspect Hugh of working for the CIA, and numerous new acquaintances of being informers for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. She rashly hands over her passport to an Iranian woman who wants to break out of her arranged marriage to an older man, thus giving the young wife a chance to flee the country without her husband's knowledge or approval. Jeffrey writes from San Francisco, saying...