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Hunkered down in a new determination to preserve his throne (see box), the Shah was inexplicably absent from the ceremonies and failed to take the customary salute. Nonetheless, for the first time in the past two months, the capital appeared to have recovered a semblance of normality. Sporadic violence and protest demonstrations persisted in some outlying provinces; in the northeastern city of Mashhad, three people by official account -13 according to anti-Shah sources -were killed when troops fired on demonstrators. But most of the country's striking workers went back to their jobs, including employees of Iran...
...Shah has made up his mind to stay in Iran with his people. He does not believe that he is finished, not even close to it. Despite the disappointments and the brutal punishment he has taken in the streets, he feels it is his duty to protect the throne and thus his country. He believes one day his son, Crown Prince Reza, 18, will ascend the throne. But not now, not even under a regency council. The Shah wants his heir to have a viable monarchy, not a weak one. As for talk about a constitutional monarchy, the Shah believes...
...speech was unprecedented for Iran's proud autocrat. It reminded some history-conscious observers of the last days of Imperial Russia's Czar Nicholas II in 1917, or France's King Louis XVI trying to stem the revolutionary fervor that was eventually to sweep him from his throne in 1792. In a televised address to his rebellious country, the Shah announced that he was placing strife-and strike-torn Iran under temporary military rule. Simultaneously, however, he pledged to meet virtually all the demands of his regime's opposition?all, that is, except for his own abdication from the Peacock...
...politics of Iran, only one man counted until recently: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Now, however, four key opposition figures have emerged who may well determine whether or not the monarch keeps his embattled throne. The four...
Swathed in a velvet train, with the imperial crown carefully balanced on her coiffed brown hair, Queen Elizabeth II opened the final session of Parliament before her subjects vote again in a general election. In one of Britain's better pageants, the Queen spoke from a golden throne in the gilded House of Lords, surrounded by such royal functionaries as her Gold Stick in Waiting and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant. So many ermined peers and bejeweled peeresses were present that a journalistic wag observed there was a "tiara boom today...