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...January 12 Harvard Gazette, Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, gave us a succinct account of how the Shah "wanted to bring his country into the 20th century quickly but in doing so disrupted all aspects of society": the aristocracy and middle class invested in industry and many became rich, while their children got educated abroad and sometimes became disaffected. Peasants crowded into the cities and agriculture declined. The priorities were quite wrong. "The United States and Europe contributed to the terrible mistakes made under the Shah's rule because American and European businesses were just interested...
...Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland hillsides as long ago as April and heard Pakistan's brilliant ambassador, Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, prophesy chaos in Iran. The ambassador has gone to Moscow, after telling his friends that his government believes the Soviets to be the dominant world force now because the U.S. cannot be counted on to lead...
...have been channeled in more or less the same direction ever since: his first book, Discovery of the Secrets, decried "the plots and plans which the father of the present Shah made with other leaders of neighboring countries," adding that "the orders of the dictatorial state of Reza Khan [the Shah's father] have no value. All the laws approved by Parliament should be burned...
...Alexander the Great marched across it on the way home from India, two-thirds of the men died. But local folklore has it that Baluchistan's towering hills are carpets covering vast troves of mineral wealth. "We have a saying here," beams one local leader, the portly Khan of Kalat, "that a Baluch child may be born without socks on his feet, but when he grows every step he takes is on gold." The fact is that Baluchistan has a bit of oil, coal and natural gas, but not much else...
...Baluch separatist stronghold on the Afghan side of the border, grown men and teen-agers can be found drilling with 14-lb. Lee-Enfields and pre paring for an uprising in the indefinite future. Says Chakar Khan, 28, secretary of the Baluchistan People's Liberation Front: "We're weaning them away from tribalism. Today they're beginning to understand that we're not fighting the whole of Punjab province, but only a ruling clique." While Chakar Khan dreams of a Communist "chain across the subcontinent," there are, in fact, no more than 600 fighters...