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...years to bring about the stability required for a transitional government to pave the way for free elections. The Shah thinks that such a government would have to reflect the full political spectrum, with the exception of the outlawed Communist Party. To head it, he hopes to find a Premier whom he can trust and the Iranian people will find credible. So far, he has not succeeded...
...staff. That makes it much more difficult for officers of the three services to get together-and possibly conspire against their commander in chief. Beyond that, leaders have been promoted as much for loyalty as ability. General Azhari, 61, the brusque, husky chief of staff who took over as Premier two weeks ago, graduated first in his class from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. But Azhari is also a trusted officer who formerly held the ultimate loyalty post, commander of the 10,000-man imperial guard...
...last week proposed another compromise peace formula. Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin should exchange letters on what Egypt's First Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Osama el Baz calls "the chronological parallelism" (euphemism for linkage) between Israel's Sinai withdrawal and preparations for self-rule in the occupied territories. In these letters the two leaders would pledge that 1) talks on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza would begin within one month of the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and 2) elections for local governing councils for those territories should take place...
...Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing flew home to Peking last week after completing a dramatic ten-day tour of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Burma. Meanwhile, in Canton, a British-made Hovercraft from Hong Kong skimmed into the harbor with a load of 63 tourists, inaugurating the first regularly scheduled passenger sea service from the British colony to China since the Communists took power three decades ago. In California, six Chinese scholars arrived at Stanford University, the first cadre of 700 students and researchers that Peking intends to send to the U.S. within the next twelve months...
...week, for example, the Peking daily Kwangming Jih Pao published an article arguing that a well-known polemic launching the Cultural Revolution-clearly inspired by Mao, if not written by him-was "counterrevolutionary" and a "signal to practice fascist dictatorship." Meanwhile, the memory of Teng's protector, pragmatic Premier Chou Enlai, is increasingly honored, and something of a cult of personality seems to be developing about Teng himself...