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Richard Nixon began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks even while allowing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to come to America and fill his military market basket. "I think I can prove," mused Nixon a while back, "that the arms Americans have sold have rarely been used in aggression, while those of the Russians and other nations have been used repeatedly. Are we to ignore requests from our friends in this kind of world...
...fellow citizens voted last week in a two-day referendum that would transform Iran from a dynastic monarchy into an Islamic republic, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi flew from his temporary home in exile, Morocco, to the Bahamas. The Shah, 59, Empress Farah, 40, their four children and an entourage of 30 took up residence in 15 units of the posh, bougainvillaea-studded Ocean Club on Paradise Island near Nassau...
Once there were not enough hours in the imperial day for all he sought to accomplish as that political rara avis, a 20th century absolute monarch. Now there are too many. Time hangs heavy for Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran, in exile with Empress Farah and their children in a Moroccan palace on the outskirts of Rabat. As the days drag on and the reality of lost power dashes pretense and undermines hope, the Shah has grown irritable, subdued, even morose...
...seclusion, he receives few guests, and most of these are bankers and businessmen. Many old friends are afraid to come, and the Empress, who in exile has become his rock and his shield, screens out the importunate. One welcome arrival last week, however, was Crown Prince Reza, 18, their oldest son, who had won his pilot's wings after eight months' training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, and had come to show them off to his father and fellow flyer. Alas for Reza, time may now hang heavy for him too. The wings came...
...Pahlavis have prior experience with exile, of course. After Reza Shah, the present Shah's father, was exiled in 1941, he found refuge in South Africa, where he died in Johannesburg at age 66. Now it is like father, like son. Doors everywhere have slammed shut. Spain and Austria do not want the Shah. West Germany and France, both of which are big buyers of Iranian oil, make clear that he would not be welcome, while Britain, where the family owns a 166-acre estate outside London, is distinctly cool to his living there. Even Switzerland, the Shah...