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...primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists-patience (see box). But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors, Egypt's Ashraf Ghorbal. Pakistan's Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan and Iran's Ardeshir Zahedi...
...Zahedi, 48, escort of beautiful women-last year's favorite was Elizabeth Taylor-lavish dispenser of caviar, which he delivers to friends by liveried chauffeur, former husband of the daughter of the Shah of Iran and probably Washington's best-known diplomat and partygiver. Hidden by his playboy image is his tremendous competence as an ambassador. He is also the chairman of the board of governors of the Islamic Center...
...candlelit setting looked like something out of a sultan's palace. The guests at Washington's Iranian embassy, however, were not princes and potentates, but Artist Jamie Wyeth, HUD Secretary Patricia Harris, Fashion Doyenne Diana Vreeland and a hundred other partygoers invited to Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi's Valentine's Night bash. The guest of honor: Pop Artist Andy Warhol, who earlier in the day had met President Carter at the White House. "Terrific, terrific," was Warhol's response to everything, including the centerpiece on the red satin tablecloth: a 3-ft. floral heart adorned with...
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who charmed Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi during a visit to Washington, D.C. (TIME, May 17), proved a little less enchanting to the ambassador's countrymen. Invited on Iran Air's inaugural nonstop flight from New York to Tehran, Taylor came playing the role of temperamental tourist. On arrival she sent Tehran police in search of a missing hand-carried package. Rumored to be a jewelry box, it turned out to be some Glenfiddich pure malt scotch. Then came a minor row at her hotel when she found her accommodations were not the royal suite...
...Blue Bird, recalled Elizabeth Taylor, 44, because "I wanted to help build the relationship between Russia and the United States." Maybe, but when Liz went to Washington, D.C., for the movie's premiere last week, she seemed far more interested in improving her relationship with Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, 48. Taylor, who first met the bachelor ambassador at one of his lavish capital parties last month, arrived this time as a guest in his sumptuous embassy residence. Hand in hand, the pair took a tour of dinner parties and luncheons, and one evening they passed up a Blue Bird...