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...fellow citizens voted last week in a two-day referendum that would transform Iran from a dynastic monarchy into an Islamic republic, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi flew from his temporary home in exile, Morocco, to the Bahamas. The Shah, 59, Empress Farah, 40, their four children and an entourage of 30 took up residence in 15 units of the posh, bougainvillaea-studded Ocean Club on Paradise Island near Nassau...
...Shah patched up relations with the Baghdad regime to gain a favorable settlement of a boundary dispute. As part of the deal, he cut off supplies to the Kurds and closed his border to the retreating rebels. Kurdish Leader Moustafa Barzani, who died in Washington early this month at age 86, pleaded in vain for continued American help...
Three weeks ago, in the wake of the upheavals that deposed the Shah, Iran's women took to the streets once again. As they saw it, the new Islamic regime was threatening to deny them freedoms they thought they had already won. TIME'S Jane O'Reilly went to Iran for a look at the "women's revolution." Her report...
...lived eruption, a minor blip in the revolution? No. Many who protested against the chador respect Khomeini, are devout Muslims and believers in an Islamic state, and above all fear being separated from the revolution and divided among themselves (as they have been traditionally). But for them the anti-Shah revolution and the outbreak against the new regime's edicts proved an experience that, in the West, would be called consciousness raising. "We women don't yet know who we are," says Lily Mostafavi, a government worker. But, she adds, "we have begun a great dialogue...
...radical idea in 1967 as well, when the Shah, over great religious opposition, passed the Family Protection Law. On paper, the law was a great advance for Iranian women; in fact it proved very difficult to enforce. In 1975, a second version of the law was enacted to work out some of these difficulties. In the case of divorce, fathers or grandfathers have custody of children over the age of two (boys) and seven (girls). Marriage before 18 for women is forbidden, but allowed at 15 in special circumstances. To take a second wife, a man may plead nine special...