Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happened after that has never been very clear, but Ebtehaj found himself clapped into jail for seven months, and only after protests from his friends abroad was he released on a bond. It was some bond: a whopping $140 million signed guarantee that Ebtehaj would not skip Teheran. Most of the collateral was contributed by sympathetic Iranians in the form of land deeds, securities and cash pledges...
...Simbel, Hochtief has eight other major foreign projects on hand, ranging from a harbor in India to power plants in Buenos Aires. In the postwar period, the firm has completed $200 million worth of foreign construction, including India's first big steel plant, an imperial palace near Teheran and Athens' new Hilton hotel...
...other wide survey is the WORLD BUSINESS section's study of the international economy, which called for reporting from TIME correspondents in Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Rome, Athens, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Teheran, Tokyo, Nairobi, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Rio, Salisbury, Sydney and Moscow. Their reports, analyzed by Writer Everett Martin and Senior Editor Edward L. Jamieson, added up to an encouraging conclusion about the trend of the economy in the free world...
...years Soviet transmitters beamed a propaganda barrage against neighboring Iran, including appeals for insurrection against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. These days Moscow's line is more seductive than destructive. In Teheran on a state visit last week, toasting the health of "Your Imperial Majesty," was the titular Soviet Chief of State, Leonid L. Brezhnev, one of Nikita Khrushchev's most promising prot...
...Palace, Brezhnev specified in advance that proper dress would be a business suit (the Empress appeared in a filmy black gown, without her tiara). He visibly caused raised eyebrows at one dinner by licking his fingers after heaping caviar on a slice of toast. Riding through the streets of Teheran in a gilded coach, Brezhnev defied custom when he turned his back on the Shah in his eagerness to wave back to crowds shouting Zindehbad Rafiq ("Long Live the Comrade...