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...Iran's traditional new year celebrations,* Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini made an uncharacteristically conciliatory gesture. The spiritual leader of Iran's revolution declared an amnesty for everyone accused of collaborating with the deposed Shah's regime except for "murderers, torturers and plunderers." That was good news to tens of thousands of technocrats, industrial managers, professional people and university professors who fled Iran after the overthrow of the Shah. Calling upon the exiles to return home, President Abolhassan Banisadr declared: "It is only here, and nowhere else, that you will find the opportunity to be perfect human beings...
...clergyman, Beheshti began his political career in 1965, when three of Iran's ranking ayatullahs nominated him as spiritual leader of a mosque for Iranian immigrants in Hamburg, West Germany. His five years there aroused much criticism from dissident Iranian students, who accused Beheshti of ignoring the Shah's repression and concentrating on purely religious issues. Beheshti insisted that he was writing a book on Islamic government that would clarify his political views, but such a work has yet to see print. While in Hamburg, he would not allow any written criticisms of the Shah to appear...
...surgeon chosen to operate on the Shah's spleen was one of the world's most celebrated heart specialists, Michael DeBakey, president of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine. DeBakey was selected because the surgery, which is normally not a difficult or life-threatening operation, might lead to cardiovascular complications. At week's end DeBakey flew to Panama with a team of five assistants; Panamanian medical authorities said that the visiting specialist could examine his royal patient, but were holding up permission for DeBakey to perform the surgery...
...operation will take place at Panama's most exclusive private clinic, the Paitilla Medical Center-roughly 35 miles from the Shah's rented home in exile on Contadora Island. At week's end the monarch moved into a suite of six rooms and a solarium in the modernistic, whitewashed hospital, which offers a breathtaking view of the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Gorgas Hospital, still operated by the U.S. military in the former Canal Zone, is one of the best-equipped medical facilities in Central America. But the Shah had not requested to be admitted there...
Meanwhile, Juan Materno Vasquez, a Panamanian lawyer hired by the revolutionary government in Tehran, announced that Iran will file a formal demand for the Shah's extradition this week. Panama has no extradition treaty with Iran and its constitution forbids sending any foreign national to a country that has the death penalty. Panamanian Ministry of Justice officials said they are prepared to listen to Vasquez's arguments, but it seemed unlikely that President Aristides Royo would reverse his decision to grant asylum to the Shah for as long as he wants...