Word: somes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Shah's life in exile, since he fled Iran last January, has been considerably less grand but still rather more than comfortable. In Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he lived for almost five months before coming to the U.S. for medical treatment, he occupied a rented four-building compound with...
In mid-March, said Kissinger, a State Department official asked him to advise the Shah not to seek admittance to the U.S. until emotions calmed in Tehran. Said Kissinger: "I refused with some indignation." Kissinger and David Rockefeller thereupon both asked the Government to help the Shah seek asylum in...
Rockefeller was clearly the man who alerted Administration officials to the Shah's medical problems. The banker has conceded that he helped arrange for the examination of the Shah in Mexico by Dr. Benjamin Kean, a New York specialist in tropical diseases. Rockefeller said that Kean "confirmed the gravity...
The first day (Tuesday, Nov. 20). "Who is this madman?" exclaimed Prince Sultan, the Saudi Minister of Defense. Shortly after 4 a.m., some 200 followers of Mohammed had seized the mosque, using weapons concealed inside 14 coffins. They demanded that the worshipers recognize Mohammed as the long awaited Mahdi (messiah...
The fifth day. Documents found on the bodies of several of the invaders established that they were South Yemenis; some of their wallets contained pictures of Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini. Mohammed's men were now fighting hit-and-run skirmishes. Many descended into the cavernous maze of the...