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Last month the Shah decreed free and compulsory elementary school education throughout the country. The problem, however, is that Iran does not have enough teachers. One reasonably successful palliative up to now has been the creation of a "literacy corps" of high school graduates who spend most of their two-year military service teaching school. The corps has a program in which teachers travel with nomadic tribesmen and at each stop pitch a white school tent alongside the tribes' black goat-hair tents. The Shah also decided that each schoolchild should have a free daily glass of milk...
...byproduct of such bureaucracy, as the Shah is aware, is corruption. Foreigners flocking to Iran to do business have discovered that even in the army, payoffs have been demanded. Only at the very top, apparently, is there total honesty. But crackdowns have begun. Wealthy Businessman Hussein Hamadanian was recently arrested by the secret police for embezzling from one of his companies and is awaiting trial. He faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years and may well receive the maximum penalty as a warning to others...
...Shah not only decides Iran's foreign and domestic policies, but he generally enunciates them as well. During a recent 90-minute interview at Saadabad Palace with TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, the Shah candidly discussed a number of key issues, ranging from oil prices and Iran's ambitions in the Indian Ocean to the strength of the country's secret police, SAVAK, and his opinion of Western work ethics. Excerpts...
...other working wives: how to find enough time for both job and home. To give their four children, Crown Prince Reza, 14, Princess Fahranaz, 11, Prince All Reza, 8, and Princess Leila, 4, "as much of a normal, natural life as we can," Farah and the Shah set up a special palace school with 45 other children. She has no great love for protocol, often eludes palace security and slips out for a walk in a nearby park, inadequately disguised in scarf and sunglasses. Although her wardrobe formerly came from European couturiers, she now mostly buys clothes made in Iran...
...Empress of a predominantly Moslem nation, Farah is proud of the strides that Iran is making in establishing equal rights for women. One of her proudest moments came when the Shah dispatched her on an official trip to Peking two years ago at a time when Iran was moving to strengthen diplomatic relations. Farah interpreted the Shah's entrustment of such a sensitive mission to her as evidence of his commitment to a new role for women outside the home. What about becoming regent? "I don't want to think about it, but sometimes I do," she told...