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Last year, the Corporation did it again, getting for its Commencement speaker (always one of the honorary degree winners) His Imperial Majesty, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shahanshah of Iran. President Pusey cited the Shah as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
Iranian students in the United States, however, see the Shah in a different light. Like many of the Latin American rulers Harvard has so honored, the Shah is considerably less popular with his own people than with American observers. The Iranian Students Association in the United States announced that it rejected the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and the students picketed outside Harvard Yard during the Shah's address...
Tents Folded. The architect of the effort to build a new Afghanistan is King Mohammed Zahir Shah, 54, a European-educated Moslem monarch who for years spent much of his time hunting and golfing. But in 1955, 22 years after he came to power, Zahir Shah decreed the beginning of formal economic planning and began to move his 15 million subjects on the road to democracy. He ruled that the chadri, a tentlike garment that makes women look like ambulatory potato sacks, need no longer be compulsory garb. In 1964, he promulgated a new constitution that in the long...
...Iranian Students' Association in the United States, however, rejects the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and said yesterday it would picket outside Harvard Yard at 2 p.m. today...
...recent edition of the Association's Iran Report, the Shah was blamed for squandering Iran's money on military expenses when the country "has a chance to industrialize." One member of the Association said in an interview yesterday that he knows of no student organization in Iran or abroad which favors the Shah's regime...