Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court. He also vividly remembers the uprising in Iraq which ended with the assassination of King Feisal. There is ample cause for unrest in the Shah's kingdom, and from across the border, Radio Moscow keeps up a steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly...
...firms, such as David E. Lilienthal's Development & Resources Corp., are building Iranian dams and highways; more than $1 billion in U.S. economic and military aid has poured into Teheran in the past nine years. Yet an Iranian mission has just asked Washington for an additional loan to balance the badly out of whack Iranian budget, and the military-minded Shah grumbles that he is not getting any supersonic century series jet fighters, even though there are only a handful of Iranian pilots skillful enough to fly the F-86s he already...
Iran's Tudeh (Communist) Party is officially outlawed, but in the dingy bazaars of Teheran and Tabriz there are always a few dozen of its members busy plotting the downfall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his regime. Last week, as the Shah departed for a tour of Sweden, Belgium and Austria, the army took five arrested Tudeh members from their cells and shot them. An "unofficial" source explained that the executions were designed to be an object lesson to plotters who might have been thinking that the Shah's absence would be an opportune moment...
...surrounding mountains. Over the course of five days, successive quakes trapped and killed rescue workers trying to dig out survivors from the first disaster. France offered a stethoscope device successfully used in Agadir in March to detect still breathing victims trapped beneath the rubble. The U.S. naval attache in Teheran flew a DC-3 down to the stricken city with emergency supplies and took out survivors. At week's end Queen Farah, who is expecting her first child this fall, offered to take 200 motherless children of Lar into the royal orphanages...
Everybody in the know in Iran was broadly hinting that pretty Queen Farah, 21, the Shah's third wife and his bride of two months (TIME, Jan. 4), is expecting. From the royal palace in Teheran came a wave of unofficial tidings, all affirmative. Said one court official: "From the Shah's smile, you can get the best confirmation of the good news...