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There are other, exacerbating dimensions to the problem. Indeed, there are exquisite ironies. The Shah is very much a creation of the U.S. He regained the Peacock Throne 25 years ago as a result of the bold but covert exercise of American power (a CIA-engineered countercoup against leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh). But two things make such intervention impossible now that he is threatened again...
...Shah of Shahs, ruler of Iran's Peacock Throne, once dreamed of lifting his country's backward economy at breakneck speed into the 21st century. Now that dream has been battered by months of rioting and country-wide strikes. The economy that Iranians confidently predicted would soon match that of West Germany or Japan now seems destined to compare with that of Turkey or Southern Italy...
...televised address to his rebellious country, the Shah announced that he was placing strife-and strike-torn Iran under temporary military rule. Simultaneously, however, he pledged to meet virtually all the demands of his regime's opposition?all, that is, except for his own abdication from the Peacock Throne...
MARRIED. John D. Ehrlichman, 53, Richard Nixon's domestic affairs chief and Watergate conspirator; and Christine Peacock McLaurine, 30, interior designer; both for the second time; in Staten Island, N.Y. Ehrlichman, divorced only last month, met his new wife eight months ago in a Manhattan furniture store, where she worked as a salesperson. The couple plan to live in Santa...
...know it's a very selfish drive that has made me play--to see if I can do it or not. If I do it, I strut around like a peacock...