Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civics-class approach to the world appeared again when the Shah of Iran fell. While cautious in public statements, Carter in private had nearly convinced himself that Iran would return to the constitution of 1906, that the legislature would reassemble, the military would hold order and a stable government take root. "It was preposterous," says one who helped plan the American response. "The President's thinking was not based on any actual experience of how governments really work in this world...
...several hundred supporters of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini gathered last week in Washington's Lafayette Square, they were pelted with eggs, soft tomatoes and ripe fruit by an angry crowd of flag-waving Americans. "Go home! Go home!" shouted a gray-haired woman. Yelled a teenager: "The Shah would know how to deal with you. He'd have you beheaded...
...outburst in Tehran came just when U.S. officials believed that the hostage crisis might be easing. Not only was the Shah dead, but the Iranian Parliament at last had convened; Washington had hoped that that body would resolve the hostage issue quickly so that it could concentrate on Iran's critical domestic problems. Said a Carter Administration official: "We have been avoiding any actions that would flare up emotions in Tehran against the U.S. Now all of a sudden you've got mobs outside the U.S. embassy again...
...telephone contact with the hard-liners in Tehran. Officials even feel that some of the Iranians have been recruited as assassins to intimidate and eliminate leaders of the anti-Khomeini Iranian community in America. The prime suspect in last month's killing of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Shah official, is Daoud Salahuddin, who was once Nahidian's bodyguard...
Thus was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the fallen Shahanshah (King of Kings) laid to rest las week. "I am fed up with living artificially. I don't want to live like Tito," the 60-year-old Shah had said shortly before his death from complications of lymphatic cancer two days earlier. Attendance at his funeral was far different from the international tribute paid last May to Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito. The Shah had expressed the desire for "a very simple funeral." But Sadat insisted that he be buried with military honors. Egypt's President skirted a potential...