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...case Iran's production dwindled even further than it had already. At week's end a strike by oil workers had cut the country's normal daily production of 6 million bbl. to about half that total. Then, at the suggestion of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President invited George Ball, an Under Secretary of State in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, to join the National Security Council temporarily as a special consultant. His job: to prepare a long-range option paper on Iran and the Persian Gulf...
...inflation effort, that office is Kahn's last stop before visiting Carter. Another day, a visitor finds Jordan closeted with Charles Kirbo, the President's Atlanta-based confidant and troubleshooter, and Jay Solomon, head of the troubled General Services Administration. Yet another day, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski shows up to remind Jordan that a foreign affairs meeting awaits his presence...
...should have anticipated the Shah's troubles much sooner-but that somebody else was responsible for the failure to do so. Some State Department officials complained that in Tehran, U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan had suppressed pessimistic, and prophetic, cables from underlings. Others blamed Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose theory it is that the U.S. must bolster "regional influentials" like Iran. That theory, said the critics, was based on the false assumption that military might plus oil wealth equals political stability and failed to take account of the corruption, mismanagement and religious opposition that undercut the Shah...
...this moment four of the most prominent men in the fields of religion (John Paul II), politics (Zbigniew Brzezinski and Menachem Begin) and literature (Isaac Bashevis Singer) are Polish-born. Hurray for Poland...
Nowhere was concern greater than in Washington. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, telephoned the Shah and told him that he had U.S. backing for whatever he did?in effect, giving him the go-ahead to call in the army. The Administration believes that the military government has given the Shah a temporary reprieve. General Azhari is regarded as an intelligent, sensible administrator and unquestionably loyal to the Shah. "This is not an independent military government," stressed one Administration aide. "It's the Shah's government...