Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William J. Butler, a New York lawyer who investigated SAVAK for the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, spoke to Reza Baraheni, an Iranian poet who was held for 102 days by the secret police in 1973. Baraheni told of seeing in SAVAK torture rooms "all sizes of whips" and...
Khomeini's demagoguery notwithstanding, even after that slaughter, the total number of the Shah's victims simply cannot be compared to the millions killed by Hitler and Stalin; nor can the tenor of his regime be likened to that of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's...
Whatever the size of the Shah's personal fortune, he ran a corrupt government from first to last. Foreign companies frequently had to pay "commissions" to government officials or members of the royal family to get any kind of contract in Iran. One example: between 1973 and 1975 the...
The Commission for the Blind has taken preventive measures against danger to blind pedestrians, Peggy Connors, a member of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, said yesterday.
The commission has prepared a brochure and sent out a public service message to all the radio stations in the state to encourage blind people "to wait until they're sure," before crossing the street and to ask other people to offer their assistance to the blind.