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...cold night air by a siwan, a "hall" roofed and walled by brightly colored canvas. "Union! Union! Union! Nasser! Nasser! Nasser!" roared the mob. What it got was a little less than Nasser had hoped for. The leaders of the Iraqi delegation to the celebration, Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi and Foreign Minister Talib Hussein Shabib, were cordial enough, but they were far from specific. Saadi dutifully paid tribute to Egypt as the "mother republic" of the Arab world, but instead of calling for union, he urged only a "frank rapprochement" between Cairo and Baghdad...
National Front is led by taciturn Allahyer Saleh, 64, who collaborated with the Communists in 1947, later served in the government of weepy old Mohammed Mossadegh. Saleh claims that only the National Front can save Iran from Communism, on the ground that it is the only political organization untainted by corruption and, therefore, enjoying public confidence...
...stopped at the Mother's Aid Society Hospital, a crowd gathered outside. Just before noon, Queen Farah Diba, a robust, 22-year-old commoner who still holds the Iranian schoolgirls' record for the high and standing broad jump, gave birth. "Your Majesty, it's a boy!" cried Dr. Jahanshah Saleh, who is both the Queen's obstetrician and Iran's Minister of Health. The Shah raised his hands over his head in thanks to Allah for the heir for whom he had been hoping 21 years...
...crowd of clamoring reporters, Dr. Saleh described the baby. "It's big. He has the soft black eyes of Queen Farah, the mouth and chin of the Shah." The Shah himself took a look and exclaimed: "God Almighty, it's a good boy." To celebrate, he declared a two-day national holiday, a 20% cut in income taxes and amnesty for 98 prisoners. Cannons boomed a 41-gun salute, and Teheran residents poured into the streets. When the Shah tried to leave the hospital that afternoon, a shouting, jostling mob surrounded his car and forced it to a halt. Police...
Military Governor General Ahmad Saleh al-Abdi, who is entrusted with maintaining order, seems to have no well-defined political ideology of his own, but his job has made him a committed antiCommunist. Last week, in the stiffest blow yet at the street-prowling Communist gangs who stir up sporadic violence, Abdi forbade all civilians to carry firearms-even licensed weapons...