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After three weeks of desultory voting-stretched out because of impassable roads and the difficulty of finding literate officials to prepare the handwritten ballots-Iran last week tallied up the results of the election of a new, 200-seat Majlis (Parliament). As the returns trickled in, Premier Manouchehr Eghbal and his conservative Nationalists seemed assured of at least 150 seats. But it proved a Pyrrhic victory...
...this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls. One independent candidate produced photographs showing that Eghbal's men had used government trucks for the job and that one Nationalist had voted six times...
...little to chance. Old Mossadegh, who is still secretly admired by many Iranians, is kept safely sequestered on his estate 25 miles outside Teheran, and any Mossadegh supporter finds it impossible to run for election. Of the authorized parties, the Melliyun is under the leadership of Prime Minister Manouchehr Eghbal who once told Parliament, "I am not interested in your criticism and your complaints. You may say whatever you like. I don't depend on your votes. The Shah has ordered me to serve, and I am his servant." The opposition Mardom party was set up on the Shah...
...limousines rolled up, one after another, the honor guard posted before Washington's vast, columned Interdepartmental Auditorium repeatedly sprang to attention. Inside the hushed hall a loudspeaker announced each arrival: Premier Manouchehr Eghbal of Iran, Premier Adnan Menderes of Turkey, Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir of Pakistan, British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia. With all due pomp, the U.S. last week was playing host to the semiannual Ministerial Council of CENTO, the Baghdad-less Baghdad Pact...
Limited Underwriter. In what has become something close to a CENTO ritual, Pakistan's Qadir at last week's session urged the U.S. to abandon the fiction that it is not a full member of the pact, and Iran's Eghbal outspokenly demanded more U.S. and British aid. But the U.S. had already pumped $470 million into CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking...