Iran's merchants were an important part of the opposition movement that swept Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from power in 1979.

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Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

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