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...striking teachers menacingly massed in front of the Parliament building in Teheran fortnight ago, the Shah personally cautioned his tough police to proceed gently. "One martyred student or teacher is all the Communists require to start a revolution," he said gloomily-a tacit admission of the explosive state of his nation. But in the scuffling down on Parliament square a police major lost his head, pulled his revolver, killed one teacher and wounded three others. There was no revolution. Yet students and teachers rioted bloodily in Teheran, fought hand-to-hand skirmishes with police, paraded the dead...
...Amini, 53, a wealthy, French-educated (University of Grenoble) landowner with liberal political views who privately believes that Iran's 200,000-man army is too costly, its Development Plan too small, and the Shah too deeply involved in politics for his own good. After taking stock, Amini made a sobering report to the nation. "There is no life left in the economic and financial agencies of the government," he declared. To the striking teachers, he confessed: "The treasury is empty, and the nation faces a crisis-I dare not speak more openly lest I create a panic." Then...
...date-palmed Borazjan, workers closed down the bazaar in a strike against election irregularities. In arid Shahabad, citizens who had found bast in a telegraph office were wiring protests to the Shah. Others contemptuously voted for the Shah's three-month-old son, Crown Prince Reza. Street battles in Teheran between police and antigovernment demonstrators ended with 18 hurt and 80 arrested. The cops boldly hurled tear-gas grenades at one street-corner group and then apologized on learning that they were waiting...
Perhaps the most discouraged observer of the election farce was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 41, who rules as well as reigns in Iran. The Shah would dearly like a reasonable facsimile of democracy in his tortured land, but still wants to run things, and choose ministers, himself. Four years ago, he allowed the creation of an opposition party, and a number of his supporters in Parliament happily obliged. When last August's elections were too crudely rigged by the government, he ordered them annulled. Last week the Shah wearily suspended two provincial governors for crudely flagrant "deviations from regular...
SUZETTE stars in current show at the Old Howard Casino. Lively travesty also features Shah Hara and Kalvah. Cupcake Cassidy opens Monday in new psychological drama. Week days: 12:00, 2:30, and 8:30. Saturdays...