Word: shiraz
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Hardly had the Ayatullah Khomeini taken over Iran last February when Aristo Sayeh, the Anglican vicar in Shiraz, was found with his throat slit. The crime has not been solved...
...country, some 500,000 members of the Bahá'i faith, many of whom held important posts under the Shah. Khomeini's revolutionaries seized all official Bahá'i properties, and last fall a construction crew systematically tore down the House of the Bab in Shiraz, the holiest Bahá'i shrine...
such an attack on the air bases at Isfahan and Shiraz would not only serve as a show of force against the Khomeini regime, it would also remove any possibility of the jets and missiles eventually falling into Soviet hands?and there would be few Iranian civilian casualties...
...million to the Wentworth Institute, a two-year engineering school in Boston, to set up a vocational school in Shiraz...
...atwitter when their dryers did not arrive until the second day of the celebration, along with the 400 pairs of false eyelashes, 300 wigs and 240 Ibs. of hairpins that they had ordered. Several peeved Persian Gulf sheiks complained that they had to travel the 30 miles from Shiraz airport to Persepolis by air-conditioned Mercedes limousine while Agnew, a mere Vice President, insisted on going by helicopter-and did. Haile Selassie, who was expected to arrive with an entourage of five, turned up from his China visit with 72 Ethiopians and a black Chihuahua that was later seen sporting...