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...Iranian undergraduate whose only requirement was that I not bring up the subject of politics, I was awakened at 8:30 a.m. by a ringing telephone. Clearly agitated, the Iranian undergraduate haltingly told me that there could be no interview at all, politics or not. The SAVAK, the Shah's internal security organization which has an agent for every 40 Iranians, was the reason why, the student said. The Shah's people are notorious for reporting on the activities of undergraduates, and journalistic promises like "off the page 10/Dump Truck record" simply aren't good enough guarantees against discovery...
...Shah's armament-buying spree is becoming more and more of a window-shopping expedition...
Iran recently cut its order for American Spruance-class destroyers from six ships to four. The Shah is also said to be reconsidering his informal decisions to buy the U.S. AW ACS system (a Boeing 707 packed with strategic electronic gear), a new Air Force cargo plane called the YC-15 and 300 F-16 lightweight Air Force fighter planes...
...country consortium that buys most of Iran's crude reduced its purchases by 750,000 bbl. a day and turned to cheaper Iraqi, Saudi, and Kuwaiti oil. Premier Hoveida charged the companies with a breach of the 20-year contract with Iran that they signed in 1973. The Shah suggested to the British government (which owns 70% of British Petroleum, the company that leads the consortium) that Iran might not be able to buy all of the British industrial equipment for which it has signed contracts...
...meantime, Iran is trying other means to get its budget back into the black. The Shah has launched a national anticorruption drive aimed at exposing graft schemes that have siphoned revenue out of the national treasury. Two former undersecretaries in the trade ministry stand accused of bilking the government of $45 million in a sugar deal with Britain. They will have to return the money plus a 100% penalty...