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...demonstration came near the climax of the holy month of Muharram, on which Iran's devout Shi'ite Muslims traditionally take to the streets in a frenzy of self-flagellation to mourn the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Husain, who was martyred in the 7th century. This year the critical days, Sunday and Monday, had a special meaning: they were to be the occasion for mass protests against the Shah. From his headquarters outside Paris, Khomeini called again for a general strike and the Shah's downfall. "Paralyze the regime," he urged the faithful. "Flee your barracks...
...Shah from his throne. The next crucial test will come during the Islamic month of Muharram. The Shi'ite observance of this month culminates on Dec. 11, with the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husain, grandson of Muhammad. It is a time when all Shi'ites mourn for their dead, and emotions often reach a feverish pitch...
...fully achieve. He has given up on personal hygiene, lusts after his older sister and spends most of his time alone in his room. Without any redeeming charm, he is nonetheless capable of evoking sympathy. Jack never deludes himself about the mess he has become; watching his sisters mourn, he notes: "I wished I could abandon myself like them, but I felt watched. I wanted to go and look at myself in the mirror." Long solitary walks take him to the remains of prefabricated houses that had been knocked down for the forgotten highway. Standing in one, he sees...
Next day thousands of students who had gathered at the university to mourn the dead surged through its gates into downtown Tehran. They burned buildings, sacked hotels, trashed cinemas, bars, liquor stores and airline offices, which have come to be reviled by both leftists and religious rightists as detested symbols of Western economic domination. This time the troops did nothing. The Shah decided it was time to act. He asked for the resignation of Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami and his ten-week-old government. On Sunday evening, the Shah named General Gholam Reza Azhari, 61, a career officer...
...much else seems right. Quite unnecessarily, Director Bergman has burdened Eva with a dead four-year-old son to mourn and a hideously crippled younger sister whose affliction in some vague way appears to be Charlotte's fault It is hard not to feel that these characters were included to make points already well established by the interaction of the two main figures. Eva's husband, who has little to do but smoke his pipe and look wise, is another minor irritation. The result is something close to triteness...