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...like Kissinger is a German-born naturalized American. Eilts, who studied at Ursinus College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, is one of the State Department's ranking Arabists, with a permanent Foreign Service classification of minister. He speaks fluent Arabic, was posted to Teheran, Jidda, Aden, Baghdad, London and Tripoli before serving for five years as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. After leaving that post in 1970, Eilts joined the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where he wrote eruditely on such obscure facets of U.S. Middle East policy as President James...
Died. Mohammed Maraghei Said, 92, former Premier of Iran; in Teheran. Once the Iranian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Said became Premier in 1944 and proved himself a tough-minded anti-Communist by rejecting the U.S.S.R.'s first demands for Iranian oil concessions. Though his policy sparked public rioting, disrupted Iranian-Soviet relations, and resulted in his own resignation, Said was re-elected to office by the Iranian Parliament in 1948 and served another two years as Premier...
When Farah Diba, an Iranian Girl Scout, and basketball captain of her Teheran school, married the Shah of Iran in 1959, Iranian women were traditionally considered to have "more hair than brains." However, by 1963 Farah's influence on the Peacock Throne was obviously being felt: the Shah gave women the vote. Winding up a private visit to Paris, Empress Farah, 35, stopped off to see the latest portrait of herself, a larger-than-life work by French Painter Edouard Mac'Avoy. The background shows Iran happily progressing toward the millennium: ancient columns mingling with oil derricks, children...
...Croesus. Moscow has not objected publicly to Iran's military buildup, but Iraq, which broke off diplomatic relations with Teheran in 1970, has, calling it "chauvinistic, aggressive and adventuristic." Another nation disturbed by the pace of Iran's armament is India. New Delhi is worried about Iranian influence in the Indian Ocean and also fears that some of Iran's weapons will eventually end up in Pakistan...
...money. The Shah is committed to shifting his country of 31 million people into a more balanced economy less dependent on oil. He boasts that within ten years Iran will be the equal of France or West Germany today. But that takes money too. Says a U.S. observer in Teheran: "At the moment, between arms and development, they're spending more than they're taking...