Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twelfth Century Persian mathematician, court astronomer for Sultan Malik-Shah, epigrammatist and classmate of Hassan ben Sabbah ("The Old Man of the Mountain"), who founded the fanatical hashish-smoking Persian Assassins...
...Resting in Persia, after a brief unpublicized bout of baby-bussing in Russia (see cut): Princess Ashraf, sister of Persia's Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlevi. Under the auspices of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Princess Ashraf called on Stalin (who muttered good wishes for Persia), laid a wreath on Lenin's mausoleum, attended a physical culture parade, attended a tea given by Soviet President Nikolai Shvernik's wife, viewed Leningrad's Museum of Defense, The Hermitage, the Pediatrics Institute. For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor...
Handsome, young (32) King Mohamed Zahir Shah wound up the week's celebration by expressing Afghanistan's neutrality policy in hard-boiled terms: "Afghanistan always wished and still wishes for the respect of its rights, freedom and integrity. It cannot accept in the slightest anything injurious or limiting the rights and independence of this country...
...consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi. Among their chief aims: return to veils for women and beards...
...Over the Caspian we flew wavetop high. At one point we were within 50 miles of the Russian frontier. We ran across troops on the move at the confluence of the Send and Shah Rivers. A long column of horse-drawn artillery and trucks, two miles long", stretched along both sides of the road in a hairpin bend. Several hundred troops basked in the sun alongside the vehicles. There must have been hundreds more within the trucks. Just outside Kazvin we saw a column of infantry marching up the road. Behind them came carts, piled high with desks, tables, telephone...