Word: untilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such imperial hauteur contrasted powerfully with the Shah's beginnings. Though he took great pains to present his reign as a continuation and fulfillment of 2,500 years of Persian monarchy, his dynasty had not even been founded when he was born on Oct. 26, 1919. His father, Reza...
In mid-March, said Kissinger, a State Department official asked him to advise the Shah not to seek admittance to the U.S. until emotions calmed in Tehran. Said Kissinger: "I refused with some indignation." Kissinger and David Rockefeller thereupon both asked the Government to help the Shah seek asylum in...
In addition to serving in the state senate, Daley, 37, is a committeeman from the Eleventh Ward, bastion of Irish political power and his father's impregnable home base. Daley ducked controversy until Byrne's behavior aroused his combative instincts. He first challenged the mayor in September, when...
Phnom-Penh's business district can hardly be said to conduct any business at all. The little ateliers where workmen hammered tin, ingenious mechanics kept cars and trucks running with paper clips and baling wire, and rows of women bent over sewing machines have all been destroyed or closed...
Some countries just have no luck with democracy. One of them is Bolivia, a landlocked Andean nation that has somehow managed to survive 188 coups in its 154 years of independence. Five months ago, ending a decade of military rule, Bolivia held presidential elections that alas produced no clear-cut...