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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah receives extensive aid from the U.S.S.R. By Soviet count, 134 projects have been launched with Moscow's help, among them metallurgical plants, engineering facilities and a trans-Iranian trunk gas pipeline. Last March the Soviets built a new blast furnace at Isfahan; new smelting and rolling mills will follow soon. All told, these projects are claimed to account for the production of 90% of all coal in Iran, almost 90% of the iron ore and 70% of the steel...
...Carter's economic-policy team has begun making final recommendations for a Stage Two anti-inflation program. Aides aim to put on the President's desk late this week specific proposals for tougher measures to follow up the ineffective ones that Carter announced last April. The likely centerpiece: a set of specific standards that labor and industry will be asked to follow when raising wages and prices-possibly backed by the threat of federal penalties against violators...
...guideline for wage and benefit increases-about 5% a year in Wallich's latest version-and slap a penalty tax on any company that raised pay as much as 1% more. In his view, that would force employers to hold down wages, and prices would automatically follow...
...commendable record in other fields, Ford has not yet overcome apartheid in the canteen at its plant in Neave, near Port Elizabeth. Though all workers are served at the same cafeteria, the whites eat on one side of a partition and nonwhites on the other side. Few other companies follow Ford's example and encourage nonwhites to participate in negotiations about wages and work rules...
...program virtually amounted to social retrogression, stalemating the Shah's dream of turning Iran into a modern industrial state. But he was convinced that to do otherwise would only invite more rioting. Revolution could follow, bringing an end to his dynasty, and, no doubt, fresh opportunities for the Soviets...