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pishkash is what makes the Iranian economy spin, and the Shah wishes it didn't. (See THE WORLD...
...adores Noel Coward, Princess Grace, and the Shah of Iran, but in her new book, The Celebrity Circus, Jet-Set Ringmaster Elsa Maxwell, 79, goes whip-cracking after party poopers and other peevish types: Author Cleveland Amory (''boring to look at, boring to listen to, boring to read"), ex-King Farouk ("surely one of the most repulsive creatures God ever made"), and Brigitte Bardot ("she's nude, she's horrible"). There are times, though, admits Elsa, when a girl's drop-dead list gets completely out of hand: "I've said so many nice...
Bahai began in 1844 when a young Persian merchant boldly announced that he was the Bab (Gate), the divinely inspired spokesman long awaited by Shiite Moslems.*Bab was arrested and shot by the Persian government in 1850, largely because his fanatical followers were plotting to overthrow the Shah and replace him with a theocracy. Bab left the leadership of his sect to a 19-year-old follower whose authority was eventually usurped by his elder halfbrother. The brother took the name Baha'u'llah (Glory of God), excommunicated or had murdered the minority of Babis who opposed...
Stauffer's article, accompanied by eight pages of intriguing photographs, describes the life of the Quashqai nomads of Iran and the government's intermittent efforts at forcing them to settle. He fails, however, to explain the reason for the present Shah's opposition to the nomads and sounds much too much like a travelogue. Safran, on the other hand, in the most interesting article in the issue, discusses the Histradrut, an Israeli combination trade union and industrial empire. He describes its formation, in the days before the organization of the state of Israel, as an organization to include "all workers...
...region of North Africa, his judicious comment that Morocco would join an Arab union headed by Egypt's Nasser only after careful study had shown such union to be "in the common good." The Washington consensus: King Hassan is a "modern reformist" in the tradition of the Shah of Iran...