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...influx of oil money has aroused suspicion and alarm on U.S. campuses. At M.I.T., the student paper denounced the administration for "selling M.I.T." and predicted that the Iranian nuclear-engineering students would end up making "bombs for the Shah." At Stanford, two dozen Iranian students joined radical American students and marched around the campus with brown paper bags over then-heads-to avoid identification, they said, by the Shah's spies. Their complaint: Stanford's television and telephone hookups would extend the influence of a "repressive regime...
...Iraq might lead to a lessening of the Soviet Union's influence within the Baathist government in Baghdad. The assassination of King Faisal removes a staunch anti-Communist from the scene, but 'may increase the stature of another strong anti-Communist mon arch in the area, the Shah of Iran. In general, there is little sympathy in most of the Moslem world for the U.S.S.R...
...Algiers at the summit meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Shortly before that conference ended, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne dramatically announced that the two neighbors had agreed to settle "problems" that had made them bitter enemies for almost half a century. As the OPEC delegates cheered wildly, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein Takriti embraced each other...
Apparently the Shah did not anticipate that the Iraqis would move against the Kurdish rebels with such haste and ferocity. At week's end Iraq, at Iran's request, declared a two-week cease-fire to allow dissident Kurds to leave the country. After that, Baghdad vowed, it would use every military force to crush the rebellion once...
...Rosenthal, managing editor of the New York Times, calls CBS's "memoir" theory invalid. "They will be presenting this as a news program ... So how do they distinguish between this and an interview with the Shah of Iran?" Reasons Reston: "The danger is that the flow of much important information will be commercialized, and the public will be left with the best interviews money...