Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand Assault," the Allied push through Italy, the Teheran Conference and Dday...
Many Iranians trembled at the near miss. Said one official: "If the Shah should die tomorrow, this country would become overnight more chaotic than South Viet Nam." The Teheran Journal mourned: "After the Shah there is no one." Young Crown Prince Reza is only four years old, and could not hold effective power even through a regency...
...dropped out. As others-Iran, Pakistan and Turkey -became more chummy with Moscow, CENTO's essential purpose as a military shield against Communist aggression lost its urgency. Nevertheless, alliances seem to have a life of their own, and last week delegates from the CENTO nations gathered solemnly in Teheran for the 13th ministerial meeting. With the opening speeches out of the way, the delegates spent two days composing a communique that satisfied no one, yet had the sound of unity...
Historians will surely mine the Eden memoirs for their occasional insights: Harry Hopkins' confiding in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, that the U.S. was already committed to joining the war; Eden's notes on the summit conferences at Yalta, Moscow and Teheran, his off-guard glimpses of world leaders playing at the game of war: "The Prime Minister's valet came into my bedroom and said: 'The Prime Minister's compliments, and the German armies have invaded Russia.' Thereupon he presented me with a large cigar on a silver salver...
...they schuss, knees straight, skis two feet apart-and they never seem to fall down. (How can they, with a center of gravity only inches from the snow?) Nonetheless, adult snow bunnies, floundering out of their sitzmarks on the Abe Ali slopes of the Zagros Mountains, 42 miles from Teheran, cast a friendly eye on one four-year-old skiing in the brilliant sunshine. After all, he was the son of the Shah of Iran, Crown Prince Reza...