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Achieving the Symbol. The intense activity represents the latest stage in Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi's three-year-old "White Revolution" (so called because it has been bloodless), a grand design that is intended to wrest Iran from the middle ages into modern industrialized society. Having laid the groundwork through extensive land reforms and a massive literacy drive and aided by annual oil royalties worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving...
Last September, Hussein flew to Teheran for secret talks with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. In December, Feisal paid his own visit to the Shah, where the two settled an old dispute over offshore oil rights in the Persian Gulf. The oil-rich gulf, in fact, is doubtless one key element in all the royal rambling, for with Britain considering withdrawal from its bases at Bahrein and Aden, an informal understanding today could become a formal pact tomorrow if leftists try to push the Nasserite cause in the region...
...sunny, cloudless morning last week, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi entered the rear seat of his olive green Chrysler limousine at his private palace. It rolled 300 yards across the square and drew up before the massive Kakh-i-Marmar palace containing the royal office. As the Shah left the car, a detail of Imperial Guards snapped to attention...
...Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran -L.H.D. He has given his support and his best efforts, in the face of the controversy that such fundamental reforms provoke, to the achievement of land and economic reforms...
...perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan's King Hussein. Now came a non-Arab Moslem, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his Empress Farah Diba, to whom Johnson gave cowboy suits for their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter...