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Massive Aid. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran's 55-year-old ruler, has a clear idea of the role that Pan Am will play in his country's development. Since 1964, Pan Am has been providing training and technical assistance to the Iranian national carrier, Iran Air. Now, with the use of Pan Am's terminals and expertise in maintenance and promotion, the Shah intends to turn Iran Air into a major international airline, carrying tourists and businessmen from all over the world to Tehran, where $5 billion in new construction and renovation is under...
Awash in surplus oil profits, Iran is swiftly becoming the world's most acquisitive power. No purchase seems too big nor risk too great for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as he pursues his oft proclaimed goal of transforming his ancient kingdom into one of the globe's most important nations. Last week reports surfaced that the Shah once again was stalking where most bankers fear to tread. According to aviation-industry experts, Iran's banks are preparing to grant a loan, thought to be as much as $250 million, to ailing Pan American World Airways...
...student-less university. It's a sad contradiction in terms, but that's exactly what Harvard may be creating. In a recent Crimson article, Associate Dean Richard G. Leahy, chairman of the commission to study the proposed Reza Shah Kabir University in Iran, stated that the institution may begin as a research institute, without students. Typically Harvard--education takes a back seat to research. But what kind of research will be conducted, and who will conduct it? Given the Iranian Shah's fanatic interest in military equipment, his university could end up as a Harvard-staffed weapons development lab. After...
...repressive, corrupt, power-thirsty dictatorship like Iran's, I'll just say this: it seems to me that Harvard would do better to address itself to events right here in Cambridge, rather than to pour money, teaching time, and professor's lives into a high-risk investment like the Reza Shah Kabir University. Carol Petsonk
...Union since 1960. Kissinger promised Pakistan 100,000 tons of surplus wheat-but no arms. If Bhutto was disappointed, he did not show it. At a lavish banquet he happily toasted Kissinger as a "modern Metternich." On that complimentary note, Kissinger left for Iran to talk with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi about oil prices and the Middle East...