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...battlefield. The optimism was underscored last week by an unusual series of high-level conferences in the area. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev may have canceled his Middle Eastern trip for real or diplomatic reasons of health (see story page 35), but he was scarcely missed. The Shah of Iran, intent on reinforcing Arab ties, flew to Amman for two days with Jordan's King Hussein and on to Cairo for five more days with President Sadat...
Despite Iran's growing eminence as a military power in the Middle East, the Israelis were not disturbed by the Shah's tour, even though he joined Hussein in demanding the return of East Jerusalem to Arab control. "We know the Shah," explained one Israeli government spokesman. "We do not pay attention to what he says but what he does, and what he does has given us no cause for alarm." Actually the Shah was trying to improve Iran's relations with the Arabs, who worry about his military domination of the Persian Gulf and are unhappy...
...Shah of Iran laid it on the line: "The era of terrific progress and even more terrific income and wealth based on cheap oil is finished." Henry Kissinger sees it another way. If high energy prices persist, he warns, "the great achievements of this generation in preserving our institutions and constructing an international order will be imperiled...
...about potential attacks from other Arabs as he did in the days of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser a decade ago, Faisal faces other political complications. One is the Shahanshah of Iran across the Persian Gulf (Saudis doggedly refer to it as the "Arabian Gulf). Like Faisal, the Shah is an oil-rich absolute monarch, but he disagrees with the King about religion (Iranians are Shia Moslems; Saudis, more orthodox Sunnis) and the military steps necessary to protect the Gulf...
...minds," Jewett explains. In a press conference the same day, Bok announces the doubling of tuition and the elimination of scholarships. He also auctions off the Old Testament half of the Gutenberg Bible, the Slavic Languages Department, and one of the Lowell House Russian bells, to the Shah of Iran. "I've always been fond of the Bible," Bok says, "but the Shah wanted a package deal...