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...Iranian Archaeologist Ezat Negahban and his crew dig spectacular ancient artifacts out of a low mound in the fertile Goha Valley, 186 miles northwest of Teheran. By night, they stand guard against raiding peasants, crooked local officials and stealthy professional thieves. The round-the-clock duty is wearing but necessary, for the location is one of the richest in archaeological history, and the entire valley around the mound has gone digger-daffy. Peasants are even uprooting their vines and fruit trees in a frantic search for ancient gold...
Full-Dress Dig. Dr. Negahban's party made exploratory borings in a mound named Marlik aftera nearby olive grove. Out of the red earth came gold buttons, small bronze cows, red carnelian beads, and two cylindrical seals used to roll impressions on moist claydocuments. The University of Teheran granted Dr. Negahban funds for a full-dress dig, and the 400-ft.-long boat-shaped mound was systematically excavated...
Among the more interesting items: The Persian Gulf Shipping Co., the Bank of Development and Rural Cooperatives, the Royal Publishing Co., the Melli Insurance Co., the Gohestan Sugar Mill, the Fars and Khuzistan Cement plant, scores of hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, including the Kolbeh in Teheran, which remains one of the few spots in Iran still offering French strippers, Russian vodka and Caspian caviar, despite the austerity laws imposed earlier this year...
...Assassination Plot at Teheran (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Dramatization of the rumored Nazi attempt on the lives of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill...
Caracas 150 Guatmala City 103 Santiago 95 Teheran 92 Baghdad 92 Montreal 92 Mexico City 91 Paris 90 New Delhi 90 Manila 89 Beirut 86 Bogotá Lima 84 Geneva 82 London 82 Buenos Aires 82 Rome 81 Karachi 81 Istanbul 76 Vienna 75 Rabat 75 The Hague 73 Rio de Janeiro 71 Copenhagen 70 Cairo 62 The U.N.'s survey was based on the experience of its own civil servants, who live on middling but tax-free incomes; thus the figures reflect not the cost of living of native citizens but that of foreigners living on foreign incomes...