Word: shah
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This search seemed headed for yet another climax last weekend as a special five-man United Nations commission arrived in Tehran to hear the grievances of Iran's new rulers against the regime of the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Arranging this mission took more than a week of feverish diplomatic activity, as officials at times worked round the clock. Their efforts were punctuated with starts and stops, expected deals that failed to materialize, and hints of progress that suddenly dissolved...
Iran's Banisadr, however, insisted that the commission would investigate "the crimes of the ex-Shah and American intervention in Iran." What the Waldheim announcement had said was that the panel would "hear Iran's grievances" and "allow for early solution" of the U.S.-Iranian crisis. In addition, the commission was to "speak to each of the hostages." This is important to the Administration because so far no one has seen each of the 50 Americans being held at the embassy, or the three held at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The White House thus insisted, as a condition...
...militants in the embassy echoed Khomeini, adding that "if the Shah is not extradited, any expectation . . . about the reconsideration of the situation of the hostages is a foolish expectation." Lawyers retained by Tehran are expected to file extradition papers in the next week or so in Panama, where the Shah has been living in exile. Though Panama probably will hear the suit, chances are very slim that it will hand over Iran's former ruler...
...company did not bribe anybody." But the Securities and Exchange Commission charges that Textron's Bell Helicopter division spent $5.4 million in foreign kickbacks in ten countries between 1971 and 1978. The largest was the $2.9 million payment to a firm, owned in part by the deposed Shah of Iran's brother-in-law, in connection with the purchase of 489 helicopters for $500 million. The SEC also revealed that Textron, a major defense contractor, spent $600,000 between 1971 and 1978 entertaining Pentagon officials in violation of Defense Department rules...
...case, foreign payments like the one to the firm of the Shah's brother-in-law were not illegal under American law at the time. They were first outlawed by the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which grew out of bribery scandals involving Lockheed and other firms. Last week the SEC was still meeting with leading corporate lawyers to discuss possible guidelines pertaining to enforcement rules. Many businessmen and some Government officials challenge the whole concept of exporting morality to parts of the world like the Middle East, where baksheesh, or greasing the palm, is an accepted fact...