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...surface, at least, Nixon himself seemed relaxed enough last week, perhaps because he could immerse himself in foreign affairs and forget Watergate for the moment. The Shah of Iran came to call (see THE WORLD), offering elaborate praise, and Nixon absorbed it like a man sunbathing. "When you said that we were going to get out of Viet Nam with honor and dignity," said the Shah, "with all those things you have said, you realized them one by one, in an inexorable march toward attaining those noble goals...
...waterway will remain open to all: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Aryamehr, Shahanshah of Iran, scion of 2,500 years of Persian power and self-appointed (with U.S. encouragement) policeman of the Persian Gulf. He had two private sessions totaling three hours in the President's Oval Office. Then the Shah, 53, and his stunning third wife, Empress Farah, 34, were feted by the President at a state dinner in the White House (the 115 guests included a gusher of U.S. oil executives), and the Nixons attended a reciprocal dinner at the Iranian embassy. Perhaps most satisfying, though, was the morning...
...arsenal. Since 1965 it has spent more than $3 billion in the U.S. and Europe on mostly sophisticated arms, including 70 Phantom F-4 jet fighters, 400 tanks, a destroyer, a couple of frigates and what is probably the biggest fleet of Hovercraft (50) in the world. But the Shah, who makes the final decision on all such equipment, wants more. Currently prepared to spend $2 billion or so a year, he has on order 100 F-5E supersonic fighters, another 100 Phantoms, 700 helicopters, 750 tanks, eight destroyers and four frigates. Last week he added to his shopping list...
Extending Influence. The Shah is also spending heavily on military installations. He plans to expand the five-year-old naval and air force base at Bandar Abbas, which overlooks the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the gulf. A new, even bigger base for the two services is planned for Chah Bahar, close to the Pakistan border on the Gulf of Oman, extending Iranian influence into the Indian Ocean. A complex to handle a helicopter force of 10,000 men is to be built at Isfahan, in the interior. In addition, a vast communications network and automated logistics system...
...that Iran can go on buying more and better arms at the current rate indefinitely. Though it is the second-largest producer of oil in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia, Iran is no Croesus looking for ways to spend excess money. The Shah is committed to shifting his country of 31 million people into a more balanced economy less dependent on oil. He boasts that within ten years Iran will be the equal of France or West Germany today. But that takes money too. Says a U.S. observer in Teheran: "At the moment, between arms and development, they...