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With a flourish of dire warnings, stern homilies and inspired publicity, Dr. Ali Amini last week entered into his second precarious month as Premier of Iran...
Caviar & Hairdos. To wealthy Iranians with little stomach for austerity, he cried, "If my government falls, then everyone's life will be in danger. You and you and you." Dr. Amini stepped on sensitive toes by closing Teheran's glittering $9,000,000 airport to all foreign-bound Iranians except those traveling on bona fide business. First casualties were a bevy of Teheran socialites who were sent home in tears. Unmoved, Amini snapped: "Some ladies have been in the habit of going to Paris for hairdos." He slashed imports to save $50 million, arguing that once foreign luxuries...
Premier Ali Amini, who came to power five weeks ago during a menacing and near-revolutionary period, had set out to do all that a man could to clear the air. He jailed scores of senior civil servants and other important profiteers, purged 33 generals and 270 colonels from the graft-riddled army. He freed the press from oppressive secret police surveillance, re-established freedom of assembly, and began sweeping corrupt and inefficient bureaucrats out of government ministries...
...their bureaucratic desks and ordered out into the provinces to teach people how to read. In the Ministry of Agriculture, new Minister Hassan Arsanjani ordered a fresh topographic survey of government-owned lands, preparatory to parceling them out to landless peasants. As for Iran's big landowners, Premier Amini personally warned: "I do not expect slow action from you either." A long-ignored law restricting individual family holdings to 1,000 acres of irrigated, and 2,000 acres of nonirrigated land was dusted off and declared operative. Cried Arsanjani: "First we will tackle those who own 150 villages...
...million more. Prices are rising at the alarming clip of 10% yearly, and a pound of meat in Teheran was a staggering $1.15. Wages have not kept pace; the striking teachers on the average earned scarcely $25 a month. Then there is, as always, widespread graft and corruption which Amini frankly called "the curse of Iran...