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...since he came to the Peacock Throne in 1941. Using his overflowing oil revenues, the Shah now hopes to make Iran "the Japan of the Middle East" and a force in world politics. Filing the main reports for this week's cover story were Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Stewart assisted by TIME'S Tehran Stringer Parviz Raein. Prager's rounds included interviews with the Shah and Empress Farah in their Saadabad Palace on the outskirts of Tehran. Stewart mean while spent several days at industrial and agricultural projects and interviewing members of Iran...
...Shah not only decides Iran's foreign and domestic policies, but he generally enunciates them as well. During a recent 90-minute interview at Saadabad Palace with TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, the Shah candidly discussed a number of key issues, ranging from oil prices and Iran's ambitions in the Indian Ocean to the strength of the country's secret police, SAVAK, and his opinion of Western work ethics. Excerpts...
...relations. Farah interpreted the Shah's entrustment of such a sensitive mission to her as evidence of his commitment to a new role for women outside the home. What about becoming regent? "I don't want to think about it, but sometimes I do," she told Correspondent Prager. "Then I say to myself: 'I'll do what I can and see what happens...
...Cover Subjects Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper. But interviews with leading political and diplomatic figures often pose unique problems; many demand written questions in advance as well as the right to edit their own statements. Even security can be an obstacle. After elaborate negotiations, Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager was chauffeured to his recent rendezvous with Arafat, who is head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, through the twisting streets of Lebanon's capital in a guerrilla staff car. Prager met Arafat in a modest flat in a nondescript apartment building guarded by fedayeen armed with Soviet...
...founder of al-Fatah and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization is now more politician and diplomat than guerrilla commander. He travels almost constantly around the Arab world, shoring up support for his movement. Arafat's zeal for the Palestinians' cause is undiminished, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager after an interview with the P.L.O. chairman in Beirut, but it has become tempered with pragmatism. Excerpts...