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...century Wilanow Palace outside Warsaw, the Carters flew to Tehran. When Air Force One rolled to a stop at Mehrabad Airport, Carter was the first person to pop out of the door, his tan trenchcoat and slightly disheveled appearance contrasting a bit with the regal elegance of his host, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. On the way to the city, they drove along roads that were lined with more security men than well-wishers. Only a few hours earlier there had been five anti-American demonstrations...
During talks with the Shah at cream-colored Saadabad Palace, Carter played down his interest in human rights, dwelling instead on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Iran's desire to buy 400 U.S. combat fighters and American efforts to curb oil imports. They agreed on basic terms for the sale of six to eight nuclear reactors to Iran and to do what they can to end the war between Somalia and Ethiopia. That night Carter and the Shah, their wives and another visitor, Jordan's King Hussein, celebrated the new year at Tehran's Niavaran Palace...
Rosalynn has handed out her 200 Polish-Pride coloring books to the kids of Warsaw and some jazz tapes to the city's hep older citizens. The Shah of Iran has been given his matched set of porcelain plates with splendid Winslow Homer paintings on them. There are books on Audubon and Thoreau yet to be distributed along the President's route; the Steuben prism that focuses its light on a golden eagle will be presented to King Khalid, an avid falconer, in Saudi Arabia...
Among the top straw-poll choices for Commencement Speaker: 1) The Shah of Iran; 2) Liza Minelli; 3) Neil Armstrong; 4) Pope Paul; 5) Sherman Holcombe; 6) Halston; 7)KAL; 8) Elvis Costello...
...sound would not be stilled. The campaign focused world attention upon political thuggery, torture, repression?and there were reverberations. The Pinochet regime in Chile belatedly sought to polish its discreditable image by announcing that it was disbanding the country's notorious secret police agency, DINA. In Iran, the Shah's hated secret police organization, SAVAK, eased up somewhat on political dissidents. In the Eastern bloc, the human rights campaign produced mixed results, with a few gains for dissidents, but in some countries an even more repressive climate...