Word: teheran
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There was need for haste. Fadayan Islam was acting ominously. Day before, its young (27), wild-eyed leader, Seyed Safavi, secretly met a United Pressman in a mud hut in Teheran's outskirts, there proudly announced that he personally was responsible for the assassination of Premier Razmara (TIME, March 19). Asked, "Has Your Eminence other persons on your list?" Safavi replied: "There are quite a few who must be pushed down the incline to hell." Added Safavi: "There are 5,000 people who would immediately give their lives at my command...
...Noise from London. Mossadeq was not alone in having the jitters. Iranian newspapers were in a flap about an article in London's Economist which asserted that Britain was preparing for direct military action in Iran. The British embassy in Teheran denied the story. This week there were more rumors. Britain was making threatening noises: four thousand crack paratroopers were ordered to assembly areas near London to get ready for an undisclosed emergency assignment...
...China, the U.S. State Department had chosen to wait "till the dust settles." In Iran, as one State Department official put it last week, State is waiting "for the air to clear." From Teheran, TIME Correspondent James Bell cabled...
...There must have been a moment in China when it became fully apparent that the West had had it. One day last week such a moment came in Teheran. Suddenly the consequences of Britain's policy of icy commercial hauteur and America's righteous paralysis were starkly obvious...
...lost men of Hotu differ from moderns mainly in their reduced brain capacity. They were heavy-set and stood about 5 ft. 8 in., with low-placed eyes, long teeth, and perfectly human chins. Last week, in Teheran, still bubbling with excitement, Dr. Coon speculated on the importance of the discovery. "We have proven that men of human type existed contemporaneously with more primitive forms elsewhere . . . Here we are on the main line of evolution." Backed up by further study, his discovery may upset the prevalent notion that modern man is descended from the subhuman Neanderthal. According to Coon...