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Dollar Decline. Last week the Shah of Iran told Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that he did not expect prices to go down. Instead, the Shah said again that he wanted prices to move along with the general level of world inflation. As a consequence of inflation, the money that the producing countries get for their oil is buying fewer and fewer goods in the industrialized world. The OPEC countries' purchasing power has also diminished because of the recent decline in the value of the dollar, which is the principal currency for payment of oil. When the dollar...
Massive Aid. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran's 55-year-old ruler, has a clear idea of the role that Pan Am will play in his country's development. Since 1964, Pan Am has been providing training and technical assistance to the Iranian national carrier, Iran Air. Now, with the use of Pan Am's terminals and expertise in maintenance and promotion, the Shah intends to turn Iran Air into a major international airline, carrying tourists and businessmen from all over the world to Tehran, where $5 billion in new construction and renovation is under...
...replacement of about 80,000 bbl. of oil per day, or 50% of its requirements, that Israel is pumping out of the Abu Rudeis oilfields in Sinai-a rate that by present estimates will exhaust the fields within five years. In Zurich, Kissinger met with ski-vacationing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran, whose refineries already provide about 50% of Israel's oil needs. The Shah was willing to make up the difference from Abu Rudeis if the fields were given back to Egypt. "Once the tankers are loaded," he said grandly, "where it goes is of no importance...
...foot Mahabharat Lekh range the Nepalese "foothills." To the north towards Tibet, the valley is bordered by the towering Himalayas. But this month the country is opening up to an lnvasion of several thousand tourists to witness the coronation, of King Birendra Bir Bikrum Shah Dev, a former special student in Government at Harvard...
...There's no starch at his dinners," said one Washington partygoer approvingly of Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, 46. Once married to the Shah's daughter Princess Shahnaz, Zahedi has since 1973 been cultivating a playboy image. His friends say they are convinced his mission is simply to demonstrate the Iranian way of swinging. Zahedi likes to give lavish parties where he showers his friends with "yum-yum," his favorite word for caviar, champagne and diamonds. His wooing techniques are quaint. Recently, Zahedi startled a blonde with a chorus of "kitchy-kitchy-koos" over the dinner table. And Columnist...