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...chariots-Deborah's troops charged down the mountainside to annihilate the Canaanite army. The tactic of luring an enemy into a trap that favors the defense, Gale says, is fundamentally the same maneuver employed by Wellington at Waterloo and by Viscount Montgomery in his victory over Rommel at Alam Haifa...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, changes Premiers as casually as other men change suits. In Teheran last week, he courteously turned out Assadollah Alam, the 17th Premier in the Shah's 22-year reign, and appointed as Premier No. 18 elegant Hassanali Mansur, who holds a degree in economics and political science from Paris University and is married to an Iranian beauty and heiress named Farideh Emami...
Outgoing Premier Alam had spent 19 months in office, taking over a bankrupt treasury from his predecessor and building up a foreign exchange balance of more than $100 million. Alam had also fought hard for the Shah's "white revolution," which is aimed at bettering the lot of Iran's desperately poor 16 million peasants, while curbing the absentee landowners and mullahs (Moslem priests), who bitterly oppose all reforms. But Alam, an old personal friend of the Shah, had come to power in the awkward period in 1962 when there was no Majlis (parliament), and the Shah ruled...
Leading a crackdown on corruption, Alam is currently investigating eight former government ministers and prosecuting a dozen ex-army generals. A nationwide drive against tax dodgers has produced remarkable results; in one province alone, collections increased 1,300%. Almost 5,000 opium parlors have been shut down. Thanks to record oil revenues of nearly $400 million this year and massive U.S. aid ($157 million in 1962), the national budget is balanced and the treasury even boasts a small surplus. Fortnight ago, the government signed a trade agreement with the Common Market, lowering European tariffs on Iranian carpets, caviar and various...
...already created 2,300 farm cooperatives, is about to swing into a second phase. So far, 8,300 villages belonging to major landlords have been distributed to peasants; now they will receive lands from smaller owners as well, until some 40,000 villages are free. "By what right," asks Alam, who gave away his own vast holdings 15 years ago, "should peasants be treated like serfs, workers like slaves, and women like animals...