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...national integrity secured, the Shah turned to the task of modernization. His achievements?often accomplished by plainly dictatorial methods and at times torture and terror???were remarkable. When the Shah came to power, Iran's illiteracy rate was 95%; today it is 50%. In the 1940s the school population was about 275,000, and Iran had only one institute of higher education; this year a notably improved educational system will receive 10 million pupils, and there are now some 200 colleges and universities. As recently as 1960, only 2% of Iran's women had attended a university; today, women make...
...guerrillas undertook an anti-Israel campaign that the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were too devastated to mount, the warfare has resulted in the deaths of at least 800 Israelis and the wounding of 2,350. In savage, eye-for-eye retribution, the Israelis have returned terror for terror???usually in the form of attacks on commando strongholds and Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Syria and the West Bank. In all, more than 3,300 have died in these raids. Beyond that, the Israelis formed supersecret death squads that were responsible for killing more than 100 suspected Arab operatives...
Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror???from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...
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