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After miraculously surviving an attempted assassination by machine gun two years ago, Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi said gratefully: "Allah saved my country again." It was not an idle boast. Among modern monarchs, the Shah, 47, is a pace-setting social reformer without whom Iran would long ago have turned to chaos. The trouble is that the Shah tempts Allah quite a bit. He zooms through the streets of Teheran at high speeds in his Ferrari-while police see to it that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed...
...brilliant student." The girl did cut short her education in order to get married seven years ago, but that doesn't seem to have hurt her standing. Still dazzling, Iran's Empress Farah Diba, 28, traveled to Shiraz in southwestern Iran, donned the elaborate academic robes of Pahlevi University, which happens to be named for her husband, and accepted an honorary degree in science and arts as the university celebrated its fifth anniversary...
Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 46, Shah of Iran, and Farah Diba, 28: their third child, second son and second in line for succession to the 2,500-year-old Persian throne; in Teheran...
...escaped death five times (falling off a cliff, a severe case of typhoid, a plane crash, two assassination attempts), and the experiences have brought Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi a good deal closer to Allah, says a friend. In any case, the Shah does not like Gamal Abdel Nasser's frequent attacks calling him an infidel. So to emphasize his pride in being a good Moslem, the Iranian ruler ordered the printing of a new edition of the Koran at his own expense ($250,000 so far). Using a previously unreproduced 16th century version by Calligrapher Ahmed Neirizi, 40 experts...
...that oddly celebrates Egypt's short-lived union with Syria. Warming to his subject, Nasser accused Saudi Arabia's King Feisal of financing a plot against him last summer, and of trying to form a conservative, anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. "Their object," Nasser steamed, "is to destroy Arab nationalism and unity." And who are the real architects behind the alliance? "Obviously," Nasser answered, "Washington and London." With that, Nasser all but tore up the six-month-old Egyptian-Saudi truce on Yemen, declaring that he would not withdraw...