Word: throned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nowhere is the pace of change faster than in Iran, the ancient empire ruled by this week's TIME cover subject, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, "King of Kings, Light of the Aryans." This is his third appearance on TIME'S cover since he came to the Peacock Throne in 1941. Using his overflowing oil revenues, the Shah now hopes to make Iran "the Japan of the Middle East" and a force in world politics. Filing the main reports for this week's cover story were Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Stewart assisted by TIME...
...unable to cope with the world powers that interfered in Persian affairs after oil was discovered. Finally, in 1941, on the ground that he had become dangerously friendly with the Hitler regime, Reza Shah was packed off to exile in South Africa by the British and Russians. The throne passed to his shy, diffident 22-year...
Died. Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, 55, wealthy former Maharajah of Mysore and one of the last of India's great princes; of bronchial pneumonia; in Bangalore, India. Wadiyar ascended Mysore's throne in 1940. Though he ruled with a fabled fondness for splendor, pomp and courtly ritual, Wadiyar also did much to modernize his 125,000-sq.mi. realm. In 1947, when India began consolidating the 550 princely states left behind after British rule, Wadiyar was one of the first potentates to relinquish his sovereignty; from 1956 to 1964 he served as appointed Governor of Mysore, and from...
...Over the years, there were successes for the CIA as well: the 1953 coup that deposed Premier Mohammed Mossadegh (who had nationalized a British-owned oil company and was believed to be in league with Iran's Communist Party) and kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi on the throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow of Prince...
...national state before the Soviet Union began to try to hold peoples together with new ways and hopes. Austria's ways and hopes were long past their prime in 1914, when the war that finished them began with a nationalist Serb's assasination of the heir to the Austrian throne. The empire's decline was slow and gradual, and so was the rise of new ideas incompatible with it, like the right to national self-determination. But the war that made these changes official was sudden, bloody, traumatic. It gave people who had some sympathy with the old dispensation...