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...Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi declared a three-day mourning period, and the government radio broadcast readings from the Koran...
...Shah and his wife, Empress Fara, appealed to Iranians to contribute to a relief fund. Tens of thousands of Iranians remain homeless after the earthquake, and government officials expressed concern that the severely cold nights and hot days would endanger the health of those remaining without shelter...
...earthquake comes shortly after another national disaster in Iran--a theater fire that killed hundreds of people. The fire set off rioting throughout Iran to protest the Shah's government...
...weapons to invade Cyprus in 1974. The embargo was partly lifted this summer, but the government of Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara believes with some justification that the strength of the Greek-American lobby in the U.S. has tilted Washington's policy permanently against Turkey. As for the Shah, he has called CENTO "a nice club," although these days it is not all that nice and not all that clubby...
Ironically, one of CENTO's firmest boosters is the People's Republic of China. In Tehran last month, China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng told the Shah that he was concerned about what an Iranian official later paraphrased as "the moral, physical and political deterioration of the traditional groupings in the area." China has close ties to Pakistan, even even though though it it is miffed with the Zia regime for last year's overthrow of Bhutto, whom Peking admired, and by Pakistan's tentative moves toward an accommodation with Moscow. So, in the geopolitics of the '70s, China ranks...