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Raising the war cry "Down with the undemocratic regime of the Shah," Moslem extremists are fighting reforms with terror. In the last 16 years, three Iranian leaders have been murdered and a fourth narrowly escaped. The latest victim: Premier Hassanali Mansur, 41, who died last week after having been shot by a young Moslem terrorist at the gates of the Iranian Parliament...
...months in office, the elegant, Paris-educated Mansur had grappled skillfully with Iran's problems. He came to the Shah's attention in 1961 when he organized a 194-man committee of intellectuals and economic experts to advise on Iran's modernization. The Shah was so impressed with their ideas that he asked Mansur to form a political movement, and Mansur's New Iran Party today has a majority in the Majlis...
...replace the murdered Premier, the Shah appointed Mansur's boyhood friend and chief aide, Finance Minister Amirabass Hoveida, 45. Trained as a political economist and career diplomat, Hoveida also served briefly as chairman of the National Iranian Oil Co. He will probably need all his financial experience; despite mounting oil revenues, Iran faces a growing fiscal squeeze aggravated by the high cost of public works and industrialization projects, last year's drought and declining U.S. aid. New Premier Hoveida took up his complex tasks with the promise that "except for the sad absence of Mansur, nothing is changed...
...major problems facing the new government are the recent business recession and the nation's creaky, corrupt bureaucracy. To combat the first, Mansur intends to create work by rebuilding 1½ million mudbrick houses inhabited by 75% of Iran's population. As for the bureaucracy, Mansur says he will close down unneeded departments and fire surplus civil servants after giving them lump-sum severance...
...chief of the State Budget Department, who was asked to submit a draft of the fiscal-year budget. The official replied, "What kind of budget do you want, sir? A balanced budget, a budget with a deficit, or a budget with a surplus?" Snapped Mansur: "We are going to stop fooling the public and fooling ourselves...