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...There is one thing I can say about the Shah: he knows how to draw a crowd."-Jimmy Carter, toasting Iran's Mohammed Reza Pahlavi at the White House last week...
...this state, every pilgrim enters Mecca as an equal; all are humble before God. The King of Saudi Arabia, the President of Egypt, the Sultan of Omman, the Shah of Iran, all are indistinguishable from their subjects, dressed in the same two-sheet simple dress. Worldly conventions are discarded, distinctions eliminated, racial disparities unrecognized. One is freed from one's bondage to both oneself and others, affirming a direct commitment to the One and Only Being, admitting Him as the sole dispenser of one's fate. Coming to pay tribute to the Creator, the pilgrim is no longer a subject...
...nearing a crisis point in Congress. Whether his proposals would be accepted, he felt, depended on his being on hand to cajole wavering legislators. How would it look, his political advisers asked, if the President were off motorcading through the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, or lunching with the Shah of Iran when they were frantically trying to reach him on the phone so that he could talk to a recalcitrant Senator...
...Achilles' heel, it might be oil. But no international oil embargo against Pretoria could succeed without the cooperation of Iran, which supplies almost all of the country's crude. The Iranians have supported South Africa consistently -both for commercial reasons and, it is said, because the Shah is still grateful to the South Africans for having given sanctuary to his late father after he was deposed in 1941. In the meantime, work is proceeding on a huge, $2 billion oil-from-coal plant near Johannesburg that is expected to supply up to 40% of the country...
...Iran could spark a new arms race in the Persian Gulf, and the personnel needed to train the Iranians will add to an American presence in that part of the world that is already too large. Of even greater importance is the absence of any notion of the Shah's plans, of what he wants to do with the billions the U.S. has been sending...