Word: soraya
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...government offices and theaters all over Teheran last week, Queen Soraya's pictures were being taken down. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had reluctantly and sadly given in to his court advisers and ended their seven-year marriage by royal proclamation...
...Queen, forgetting her personal feelings as opposed to the nation's good, has made the decision . . . His Imperial Majesty, expressing his utmost regret, has renounced his personal feelings and with regard to the high interests of the nation has decided to end his marriage with Queen Soraya...
...Cologne, where she is visiting her father, the Iranian Ambassador to West Germany, childless Soraya said she was prepared to "sacrifice my own happiness" because the Shah "considers it necessary that the constitutional monarchy be perpetuated through succession to the throne in a direct line of sons from generation to generation." As consolation, ex-Queen Soraya gets a $67,000 settlement, an annual allowance of reportedly $48,000 until she remarries, permanent possession of several million dollars' worth of jewelry bought for her by the Shah, and the honorary title of "Princess" to express the Shah's "appreciation...
...Stille that NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad had chosen Italy as a site for medium-range missile bases. Through the eyes of its own 25 foreign correspondents, the mirror in Milan also reflected such stories as tension in North Africa and the Middle East, and, from Germany, Iranian Queen Soraya's reluctant progress toward a divorce (see FOREIGN NEWS). The paper bolsters its overseas coverage with 650 string correspondents and a platoon of 16 world-roving reporters known as "special envoys...
Divorced. By Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 38, Shah of Iran: Soraya, 25, his Queen; in Teheran (see FOREIGN NEWS...