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...many months ago, Iran's national production was growing at a dizzying rate of 42% a year. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi seemed to leaf through Aviation Week as if it were his special Sears catalogue. In the councils of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Iran took the lead in insisting that the world price of oil should be pushed ever higher...
...plans for the Imperial Medical Center of Iran (IMCI), to be funded by the Iranian government, reflect the Shah's political attitudes. Like most Third World nations, Iran needs to deliver primary health care to its entire population. Instead, the IMCI plans call for a referral center that would "provide sophisticated health care to the many Iranians who today can afford to seek care." Another major goal of the project is to encourage American-trained Iranian physicians to return to staff the new center and conduct their potentially important research at home. But the plans do not provide...
...still worried about competition from McDonnell Douglas, so they bought a little extra insurance: they hired U.S.-based agents for $28 million to make sure that the deal went through. What Grumman did not know was that the agents it chose were in bad odor in Iran. When the Shah learned of the arrangement, he concluded that Grumman had included the $28 million in the $2.2 billion contract price and demanded that the price of the 80 planes be reduced by that much, as a kind of fine. Grumman, arguing that the money came out of its own pockets...
...January 19, 1975, the Sunday Times of London reported that the Pentagon had asked Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman--a trusted friend and ally of the British and the Shah of Iran--for full rights at the British air base on the Omani island of Masirah, a request subsequently granted. For hundred miles south-east of the Straits of Hormuz, the entrance to the Gulf, Masirah sits right on the main sea lanes joining the Persian Gulf to the industrialized world--a perfect take off and refueling point only. Despite Congressional strictures against it the US has continued...
...Shah of Iran has canceled his visit to the Games after the kidnaping last month of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna. But Innsbruck will still attract a powdering of such celebrities as Muhammad Ali, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Lord Snowdon. To prevent another terrorist Munich, Austrian police will enforce tight security, even at the Olympic Ball, where every fourth tuxedoed guest is likely to be a policeman...