Word: teheran
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...months ago, the datelines read Teheran, Cairo, Bagdad. Last week the news was the same-riots, Reds, wreckings-but the place was new: Karachi (pop. 360,000), capital city of newborn Pakistan...
...iron gates of Teheran prison opened one chilly afternoon last week and out stepped a killer, bearded fanatic Khalil Tahmassebi. Nearly two years ago he murdered Ali Razmara, Iran's ablest postwar Premier, and thus started Iran down its unhappy trail. Last week Tahmassebi was a free man, pardoned by Mossadegh's subservient Majlis and captive Shah. The young assassin promptly rushed to the Hazrat Abdolazim shrine, wept joyously and said: "When I killed Razmara, I was sure that his people would kill...
...tribes, both settled and nomadic, constitute about ten percent of the population, he explained. "They are highly organized and disciplined, and together could muster 100,000 fighting men armed with modern machine guns and artillery." He said that some chiefs have large houses in Teheran and buy on the international market...
...year later, crossing the Atlantic in the battleship Iowa on the way to Teheran, King and the President were nearly blown up when a destroyer accidentally loosed a live torpedo. "King wished to relieve the commanding officer of the destroyer at once," writes King, "but, to his great amazement, the President told him to forget it. Consequently, no steps were taken." In King's report of Roosevelt's death, there is no word of sorrow or compassion. He complains: "There was such a press of mourners that the Joint Chiefs could not even see the grave...
...allied ships off the East Coast early in 1942). He was a typical tourist, delighting in side trips to the antiquities of Egypt and Jerusalem, and flights over Bagdad and Damascus, even in the darkest days of war. And he had the G.I.'s souvenir-hunting spirit: at Teheran, he tried to "liberate" one of Stalin's desk-pad doodles, and was miffed when a Briton beat...