Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shah of Iran returned last week from a fortnight's visit to Norway and Italy, it was to a discouragingly unchanged Teheran...
...invited all common citizens to report to him with any official who asked for a bribe; officials were so chastened that for the first time in years service was rendered citizens without the usual greasing of palms. Said a Teheran lawyer: "An empty pocket now holds as much power as a fat purse...
...peasants," Premier Amini himself, who has none of these particular predilections, owns lands the size of Massachusetts, and it was presumed that these too will be redistributed. But nothing Amini did seemed to mollify the reactionaries and leftists who opposed him. Fortnight ago a military coup engineered by a Teheran garrison officer was averted only when the Shah, then still in Norway, personally telephoned the army chief of staff with orders to stop the plot. The officer who led the aborted coup was disgruntled because some of his friends had been caught in Amini's purge of the army...
...striking teachers menacingly massed in front of the Parliament building in Teheran fortnight ago, the Shah personally cautioned his tough police to proceed gently. "One martyred student or teacher is all the Communists require to start a revolution," he said gloomily-a tacit admission of the explosive state of his nation. But in the scuffling down on Parliament square a police major lost his head, pulled his revolver, killed one teacher and wounded three others. There was no revolution. Yet students and teachers rioted bloodily in Teheran, fought hand-to-hand skirmishes with police, paraded the dead...
...income in oil revenues, its army (larger than the armies of either West Germany or Japan) and its vast police force gobble up $200 million a year, the Development Plan $150 million more. Prices are rising at the alarming clip of 10% yearly, and a pound of meat in Teheran was a staggering $1.15. Wages have not kept pace; the striking teachers on the average earned scarcely $25 a month. Then there is, as always, widespread graft and corruption which Amini frankly called "the curse of Iran...