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...first time on his trip, Nixon got out of his car in Warsaw to shake hands with onlookers. The Polish people responded by surging around him and singing "Sto Lat, Sto Lat," from the song May You Live to Be a Hundred. In Iran, Nixon conferred with Shah Reza Pahlevi, attended an elaborate white-tie dinner in the Niavaran Palace-and was far from three exploding bombs set by terrorists...
...departure of the British troops coincided with the Union's first international crisis. Iran has historic claims to three tiny islands in the gulf that were controlled by the Trucial States. Shah Reza Pahlevi took advantage of the political changes in the area to negotiate an agreement with Sharjah in which Iran received oil-exploration rights on Abu Mesa. The other two islands, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb, were seized by helicopter-borne Iranian troops after similar negotiations with Ras al Khaima collapsed. The Union was hard put to resist such encroachment; its principal military strength consists...
SOMETHING out of the Arabian nights" was what Mohammed Reza Pahlevi commanded-and when Iran's Shah of Shahs orders something, he generally gets it. The cost was $100 million, more or less, and the cast included a reigning Emperor (Haile Selassie of Ethiopia), nine Kings, five Queens, 13 Princes, eight Princesses, 16 Presidents, three Premiers, four Vice Presidents, two Governor Generals, two Foreign Ministers, nine sheiks and two sultans. That clearly made last week's shindig in Iran's ancient ceremonial center of Persepolis one of the biggest bashes in all history. Whether it was also...
...wore long beards, 200 Iranian soldiers did not shave for months; in the interests of authenticity, the government turned down a Japanese firm's offer of fake beards. There were also Sassanians, Parthians and Safavids-right down to the 20th century, when the Shah's father, General Reza Khan, a professional soldier of near-peasant origin, seized power in a 1921 army coup. He was ousted by the British and Russians during World War II for inconveniently keeping his strategic country neutral, and the present Shah took over...
From its outset, the papal pilgrimage had proceeded at a headlong pace. Paul's first stop was at Teheran airport in Iran, where the Pope greeted a small crowd of Iranian Roman Catholics and conferred for 30 minutes with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. It was long after midnight before the papal plane reached Dacca, where Paul stopped only long enough to deliver a message of sympathy to the stricken East Pakistanis and a contribution of $10,000 toward the relief of the starving victims of the recent cyclone and tidal wave. Even in the air, the Pope was busy...