Word: pahlevi
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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From its outset, the papal pilgrimage had proceeded at a headlong pace. Paul's first stop was at Teheran airport in Iran, where the Pope greeted a small crowd of Iranian Roman Catholics and conferred for 30 minutes with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. It was long after midnight before the papal plane reached Dacca, where Paul stopped only long enough to deliver a message of sympathy to the stricken East Pakistanis and a contribution of $10,000 toward the relief of the starving victims of the recent cyclone and tidal wave. Even in the air, the Pope was busy...
...women gaze disapprovingly at the miniskirted teenagers. Many Iranians can afford to buy the autos and clothes of their choice because the Alaska-size country no longer has an economy based on "the three C's": cotton, carpets and caviar. Under the prodding of the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Iran's widely diversified gross national product has increased 10.5% annually since the mid-1960s, and last year per-capita income rose from...
Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi 50, the Shah of Iran, and Empress Farah, 31, his third wife: their fourth child, second girl; in Teheran. Name: Princess Leila...