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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: the Shah
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 12:40:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 12:40:06 1984
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[checkmate]

If we're putting it to a vote, I'll vote "no" on the late Shah.  By all
accounts he was a weak and foolish ruler, whose chief love in life was
casino games.  He also appears to have been as great an enemy of free
speech as his successor.

The only good I have read of him is that he promoted literacy in Iran,
thus accelerating his own destruction.  But in view of what has come
after, I cannot regard even this as an unqualified improvement.  Giving
literacy to a tribal culture is like giving teeth to a butterfly.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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