Word: teheran
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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...
...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...
...Colombo. Dublin, Rome, Teheran, Melbourne and Delhi, demonstrators marched through the streets shouting "Lumumba!" and waving anti-Belgian placards. In Cairo, the Belgian embassy was set afire...
...former Premier who has lived under tacit house arrest since leaving prison in 1956. Convinced that the election would be fraudulent, the National Front ordered it boycotted. And last week the Front was taking credit for the fact that of 600,000 eligible voters in the capital city of Teheran, only 65,000 went to the polls...