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...windswept mountains and fertile valleys of the Iranian province of Fars, where Cyrus founded the Persian empire almost 2,500 years ago, time has stubbornly stood still. The feudal landlords defiantly lead the fight against change, and especially against the Shah's ambitious land-reform program...
...formidable alliance, but last week it received a severe jolt. The landlords of Fars, by apparently hiring assassins to murder a young land-reform agent, turned an angry nation against them. Vowed the Shah: "His blood will be avenged...
...will be tough, but Arsanjani is determined. In less than a year, the program has distributed 1,150,000 acres belonging to big private owners; they still control about three-fourths of Iran's 50 million cultivated acres. Warned the Shah: "There is no longer any place for privileged landlords seeking prosperity from the privations of working peasants, who have equal rights to happiness...
...Merdeka (Freedom) Mosque, which is to be the world's biggest. The diameter of Merdeka's cupola will be 147 ft., or 40 ft. wider than the cupola of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia. Merdeka will hold 100,000 worshipers, twice the capacity of Lahore's Shah Badi Mosque. Since unbalancing the budget is also something Sukarno does big, part of the mosque's $30 million cost is being raised by more or less forced public subscription...
...burbles beside the driveway, continues through the house in blue and gold glazed tile channels, tumbling over alabaster barriers and out into the garden. The chilled water is also used to air-condition the house in summer, must be heated before reaching the swimming pool, where on Wednesdays the Shah and Queen Farah Diba and other members of the royal household come to visit Princess Fatemeh for a swim...