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Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, changes Premiers as casually as other men change suits. In Teheran last week, he courteously turned out Assadollah Alam, the 17th Premier in the Shah's 22-year reign, and appointed as Premier No. 18 elegant Hassanali Mansur, who holds a degree in economics and political science from Paris University and is married to an Iranian beauty and heiress named Farideh Emami...
...poor 16 million peasants, while curbing the absentee landowners and mullahs (Moslem priests), who bitterly oppose all reforms. But Alam, an old personal friend of the Shah, had come to power in the awkward period in 1962 when there was no Majlis (parliament), and the Shah ruled by decree. Mansur, representing the majority New Iran Party in today's Majlis, has a solid political base. Alam will not suffer overmuch; he becomes guardian of the Shah's son, three-year-old Crown Prince Reza, and president of Pahlevi University in Shiraz...
Hassanali Mansur began grooming himself for the premiership in 1961 when he established a 194-man committee of fellow experts to draw up plans for economic and administrative improvements in Iran. His new Cabinet is composed of 22 technicians, whose average age is 42; while, at 40, Mansur himself is Iran's youngest Premier in 40 years...
General Fuad Shehab, 56, patrician, arthritic, French-trained professional soldier, has headed Lebanon's 8,000-man army since 1945. A Maronite Christian, he is a collateral of the famous Emirs Mansur, Yusuf and Bashir who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Turks. Eighty percent of his officers, 60% of his men are Christian. Six years ago, when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except...
...later released it to the press marked FOR RELEASE AT NOON. The signature copies, signed and enclosed in big White House envelopes, were taken up to Capitol Hill. Shortly after noon the clerks began to read the 7,500 words of the message. It took Senate Clerk Edward E. Mansur Jr. 51 minutes and House Clerk George J. Maurer one minute more...