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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's life in exile, since he fled Iran last January, has been considerably less grand but still rather more than comfortable. In Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he lived for almost five months before coming to the U.S. for medical treatment, he occupied a rented four-building compound with spacious gardens set inside a twelve-foot wall. He can afford a personal security force and a staff of servants-and he pays the $975-a-day bill for his New York hospital suite promptly. But the Shah last week whiled away much of his time in the unregal pastime that...
Feelings grew so hot that Kissinger and Secretary of State Vance met on Monday last week for an extraordinary 70-min. conversation. Both men got their grievances off their chests-Vance complaining that Kissinger was gratuitously running down the Administration and Kissinger accusing the White House of unfairly impugning his character. The two men struck a truce: the Administration would stop criticizing Kissinger to newsmen, and Kissinger would tell his side of the story, once...
...unity behind the President" in all his recent public comments on Iran in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles. But he concentrated on reports in the press that he had pushed the Administration to take in the Shah. He said his involvement began at the Administration's urging last January to help find a residence in the U.S. for the Shah, who was then under heavy pressure at home to leave Iran. Kissinger said he asked David Rockefeller to join in the search for a U.S. home, but Rockefeller was reluctant, not wanting to jeopardize his bank...
Kissinger concedes that he then made telephone calls to "three senior officials" and paid two personal visits to Vance to argue that a U.S. visa should be granted the Shah. He expressed that view volubly in private conversations with many people, including journalists. He said that the last of his direct pleas was made in July. He and Rockefeller then sought to find asylum elsewhere for the Shah. Rockefeller found a temporary residence in the Bahamas, and Kissinger persuaded the government of Mexico to admit the Shah on a tourist visa...
...drama took on a life of its own. One wonders whether, if Walter Cronkite had ignored him, Hansen would even have been allowed into the besieged embassy. He was, however, and that was a spectacle of sorts, but not as big as what came through the tube. By last week Hansen was more than electronic news-he was entertainment. He was being filmed for the Today show and Good Morning America. There was plenty of criticism voiced along this strange journey, but attention is often what registers on television. That Hansen had and kept...