Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm lands and buildings; their other holdings must be sold to the government at specified prices for distribution to sharecropping farmers. Along with most of the other 450 wealthy families, the landlords of Fars have fought the land distribution law by helping to foment street riots in Teheran, falsifying ownership records with the connivance of provincial officials, forging ballots in local elections. Recently, the landlords won powerful allies by enlisting Moslem mullahs who are using their pulpits to frighten illiterate, landless peasants out of demanding their legal rights...
...hills of Fars, stronghold of the fierce Kashgai tribe, to try and spot the killers. Under martial law, a military governor took over control from civilian officials who, it was rumored, had plotted with landlords to oppose reform. A national day of mourning was declared for Abedi, and the Teheran radio broadcast only news and funeral music. Instead of halting land reform in the area, the murder had the opposite effect. Agriculture Minister Hasan Arsanjani, who has aggressively pushed the cause of land reform under two Premiers, ordered local officials to finish the job in Fars within 45 days...
...LYNDON DE WITT Teheran, Iran...
...doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left arm in four places...
...Iranian princess had been educated in South Carolina and had lived in California, and for her residence in the suburbs of Teheran she wanted a California-style redwood ranch house. So naturally she hired a pair of American architects to build it-and naturally they itched to design a house in the Persian tradition. Architects usually have their way: the result is the jewel-like residence pictured on the opposite page...