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...Shah is sensititve to the criticism of his $100 million extravaganza. And well he might be! The indignation felt by the majority of th Iranian citizens is shared by the majority of us working here in the American and European business communities. Particularly by those of us who have delivered technology to the Iranian government on or ahead of schedule, and are still awaiting payment months and years later. To spend $100 million on a celebration when more than that amount is already owing for completed hard works is indeed indicative of that numbing Iranian characteristic: the instinctive preference...
...spiritual and social teachings. These included tablets sent to the principle political and ecclesiastical rulers of the time: Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Czar Alexander II, Kaiser Francis Joseph of Austria, President Grant, Pope Pius IX, Sultan 'Abdu'l-Aziz of Turkey, and Nasir'd-Din Shah of Iran. In these letters, he proclaimed the coming of a new Manifestation of God and exhorted them to lay down their arms and take hold of that which would be conducive to the unity of mankind. Some were warned of impending convulsions in the lands they ruled...
Medieval Dish. Sensitive to criticism that the whole thing was a mite overdone, the Shah inquired angrily before the party: "Why are we reproached for serving dinner to 50 heads of state? What am I supposed to do-serve them bread and radishes?" Hardly. The affair was catered by Maxim's of Paris, which sent to Persepolis 165 chefs, wine stewards and waiters. Maxim's shopping list included 25,000 bottles of wine-including a Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, 1945, at $100 a bottle-that were sent to Iran a month early to rest. There were also...
...paired a few improbable dinner guests, such as a robed Gulf sheik, complete with kaffiyeh, next to Maximilien Cardinal de Furstenberg, the representative of the Vatican. Podigorny was seated alongside Mme. Nicolae Ceausescu, whose husband, the President of Rumania, is not Moscow's favorite chief of state. The Shah sat between Queens Fabiola of Belgium and Ingrid of Denmark. Agnew sat at the end of the table with a small American contingent, including a bejeweled Mrs. Henry Ford II. The banquet was scheduled to last three hours...
Afterward, the guests trooped into the chill desert night and sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the ruins to watch fireworks and a son et lumière display of Persian history. After an hour the Shah, noticing some royal yawns and glazed eyes, mercifully rose from his chair and almost everybody took the welcome exit cue. The guests trooped back to their tents and had a whole morning to sleep before getting up for lunch, a parade and another dinner with the regal couple before flying home...