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Within three days of the quake, the Empress and the Shah visited Tabas to assess the destruction. Survivors thronged around their monarch to kiss his hand and assuage their grief by telling him about their suffering. One man who had lost his wife and six children had to be restrained by the Shah and bystanders, from tearing at his hair in the traditional demonstration of mourning. Councilman Bandegi estimated his loss in terms of his clan, the traditional Iranian family grouping. The clan, he said sadly, had lost 341 people, or 83%. Casualties ranged through all levels of Tabas' population...
...morning, after badly needed shaves and a quick change of clothing, the three men capped their journalistic marathon by heading for Saadabad Palace and an audience with the Shah. Though arrangements for the session had been made a week earlier, before the clashes in Iran's streets, the monarch kept his appointment with the three TIME representatives. For 90 minutes, over cups of tea, he answered their questions calmly, yet with obvious melancholy...
...adjust to such radical change. The Shah failed to realize that the dramatic alterations he envisioned for the economic advance of his nation required the development of an acceptable political system. He concentrated on the army and the institutions that related to executive power. He ruled as an absolute monarch - no matter how worthy his goals - and depended on repressive measures to keep disparate forces in line while he and the technocrats proceeded with the modernization of Iran. Parliament, the press, city councils, the judiciary, trade unions, professional associations were never given a chance to develop...
...blaze in order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program. Alone among Shi'ite leaders, Khomeini failed to condemn the Abadan atrocity...
There is no doubt that the Egyptians, and their moderate Arab allies, are growing increasingly skeptical about the possibility of a dialogue with Begin. As Saudi Arabia's King Khalid bluntly put it on a visit to Kuwait: "Begin does not want peace." The Saudi monarch was pressing his own view that the time has come to ignore Begin and concentrate on what he sees as the real danger to the Middle East: recent Soviet penetration along the Red Sea and in the Horn of Africa, which threatens to encircle the Arabian oilfields and block the Suez Canal...