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...Great Game, greatgametravel.com. Its mission is to give visitors a taste of the people and culture that made this city a vital crossroads of Asia and Europe for more than 5,000 years. "Even the foreigners who have lived here for years have no idea what Kabul is," says Jamshid Rahimi, a Great Game guide. "They get picked up from their guesthouse, taken to work in an office, they eat in the foreign restaurants and they go home again. Our city has so much more to offer than that...
...courts punished rapists, thieves and adulterers, as well as more of the SAVAK agents, police and army officers who have been their chief targets. In Tehran, four men convicted of raping an 18-year-old male university student were executed; unaccountably, the victim was given 13 lashes. In Jamshid Abad, near the Caspian coast, a married woman and her lover were whipped in the square for adultery (he got 80 lashes...
...corruption that clearly involved the royal family, by the jet-setting Western ways of Iran's new rich, by the Shah's apparent contempt for the faith to which most of his people belonged. Beyond that, the mullahs were infuriated early last year when the then Premier, Jamshid Amuzegar, canceled the $80 million annual subsidy that they had formerly received from the Palace to spend on mosques, scholarships and travel. In addition, in an effort to curb inflation, Amuzegar imposed price controls, and this angered the influential bazaar people...
...past year Premier Jamshid Amuzegar had made a valiant effort to restore the country's economy. He cut inflation from 31% to 8%, cracked down on wealthy tax dodgers, purged the civil service of crooks and incompetents. But the reforms came far too late, and the rioting only grew worse. Early last week the Shah replaced Amuzegar with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, 67, a former Premier who is himself known as a devout Muslim. The Shah's charge to his new Premier: mollify the mullahs...
...provide the Shah with a chance to isolate the extremists. That would allow him to pursue his plan to hold free parliamentary elections next year. So far, however, the otherwise efficient Iranian regime has not been able to take advantage of its opportunities. The Shah's forward-looking Premier, Jamshid Amouzegar, had better luck coping with the problems of industrialization than negotiating with Shi'ite mullahs. Unable to bridge the gap between mullahs and modernists, the otherwise able Amouzegar resigned early this week, and the Shah quickly replaced him with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, chairman of the Iranian Senate...