Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME was already rolling off the presses on a Sunday five weeks ago when the exiled Shah of Iran quietly boarded a plane in Panama for his newest sanctuary in Egypt. Normally, such a late-breaking development would have to go unreported in those copies of the magazine produced in faraway Hong Kong. But no more. Only a week earlier TIME had begun transmitting its pages to the Far East at lightning speed via RCA'S Satcom II and the Comsat Intelsat IV, communications satellites some 20,000 miles above earth. Supplanting a dizzying combination of Hong Kong-bound...
...fact that the C-130s were heading for a remote spot in the desert that the Iranians had feared might some day be used by U.S. forces. Indeed, they even had a map of the spot. It was discovered in the papers of Mahmoud Jaafarian, a pro-Shah counterinsurgency strategist who was executed after the revolution a year ago. Jaafarian was actually trying to burn the map when he was seized by the revolutionaries. Jaafarian told his captors that the staging site had been secretly built by the CIA, with the Shah's knowledge, for possible emergency use. The Iranian...
...gain access to the embassy. She and her husband obtained 15-day visas from the Iranian embassy in Paris, easily got in touch with the militants by phone and flew to Tehran. Two days later, the militants took the Timms to a cemetery where victims of the revolution against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi lie buried. Kenneth Timm took photographs. "I knew they had to test me," Mrs. Timm recalled later. "They wanted to feel me out." On the ride back from the cemetery, the group had lunch at the local Kentucky Fried Chicken, and at that point the militants apparently...
...they talk about politics, or President Carter, or the Shah, or how to free the hostages? Mrs. Timm expressed surprise at the question: "Do you think I would waste time talking about such things when I had 45 minutes with...
Though Iranian exports hovered at more than 5 million bbl. daily during the days of the Shah, chaos and sabotage in the oilfields have cut shipments this spring to something less than 1.5 million bbl. a day. Nevertheless, no signs of a looming squeeze on world supplies have appeared. Says a top Department of Energy official in Washington: "Given the current world demand for oil, the market could completely absorb a total loss of Iranian exports. The situation would be precarious, but it would be manageable...