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...troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Tehran and eleven other cities to enforce a rigid 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. At least eight curfew violators were shot dead for failing to heed orders to stop. Six soldiers and a civilian died in a fire fight in Tabriz after saboteurs attacked their patrol. Security was tightened around the offices and refineries of the giant National Iranian Oil Company to prevent sabotage, but so far there was no open challenge by radical elements to the government's get-tough action...
Dogs of both sexes run, with eight to a race. Scanning the program, you see names like Tabriz Royal, Indulge, Positive Stan, Atomic Tommy and Groucho Marx. According to their records, the dogs are rated on an A through D scale system...
Berahini and Chomsky rebutted the ISA speaker. Berahini said that neither he nor the ISA represent the people of Iran, "the people who were fighting in the streets of Tabriz." He defended his credentials as a poet and an activist against the Shah, and said his goal at MIT was to expose the "violation of human rights" and plight of Iranian political prisoners to the American people...
Narmin Baraheni, a 21-year-old medical student at the University of Azarabadegan in Tabriz, Iran, was kidnapped last January by agents of the Iranian secret police (SAVAK) and carried off to the horrendous Comite prison. While awaiting "trial", she was subjected to several weeks of physical and psychological torture. Without ever holding a trial or making any specific charge against her, the SAVAK has sentenced her to seven years imprisonment...
Across the huge land, almost equal in size to France, Germany, Spain and Italy combined, great factories are springing up everywhere-in Hamadan, once the capital of the Aryan Medes; in Tabriz, where Marco Polo was entertained by the mongol Khans; in Isfahan, whose fragrant splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient...