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Politics has complicated the festering complaints of students against their schools. The fatal shooting of a student from the Free University of Berlin during a demonstration against the Shah of Iran (TIME, June 30) ignited a series of uprisings at universities across West Germany. An emotional struggle has also developed between leftist and conservative students, both demanding different kinds of reforms but neither willing to compromise or join forces. In Berlin, demonstrating Free University students have clashed violently with police five times. At rallies, "Red Rudi" Dutschke reads telegrams of support from the Viet Cong. Rectors at Hamburg and Munich...
...that had been awaited for 26 years. When he took the throne in 1941, the Shah rejected a formal coronation until he had a male heir, and until Iran was no longer the desperately poor and backward country that he had inherited. His conditions have now been met. His third wife, Empress Farah, gave birth to Crown Prince Reza seven years ago. The Shah himself launched an ambitious development program that has brought industry and prosperity to his nation, and his land reform has turned 15 million peasants into independent farmers whose soil is now their...
Bombed with Roses. To the Shah, the coronation was the symbol of the approval of his subjects and the stability of his house. There was no mistaking the fact that he had both. When, following the tradition of his predecessors, he placed his 3,755-jewel crown on his own head, millions of Iranians fell to their knees and shouted "Javid Shah [Long live the Shah]." When he broke tradition by also crowning Empress Farah, it was the ceremonial affirmation of her importance to his throne. The first woman ever to be crowned in Iran's 2,513-year...
Iran withheld nothing in its clamorous celebration of the event, which was to last for seven days and seven nights. Planes bombed Teheran with 17,532 roses-one for every day of the Shah's life. Cannons pounded out a 101-gun salute. The Teheran Symphony Orchestra played a new coronation hymn ("You are the shadow of God"), and unofficial Poet Laureate Lutfali Suratgar read a three-minute ode ("The crown and throne of the King of Kings shone over the world as the sun and the moon shine in the firmament"). Mountaineers planted golden crowns atop the country...
...Empress' birthplace. And in ceremonies in villages and towns, it inaugurated over 6,700 new schools, hospitals and development projects. Most of them were rushed to completion to meet the Coronation Day deadline. Some were paid for by private citizens anxious to show their appreciation for what the Shah has done for Iran...