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...strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil, can increase yields tenfold. The gifts and the illustrious names of their senders were well suited to the occasion. Iran last week celebrated the biggest public event of its recent history: the coronation, on his 48th birthday, of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi...
Mayor Albertz had been in office only six months when he began to lose his grip. His trouble started with the Shah of Iran's visit in June, when West Berlin police fired on student demonstrators, killing one of them. Albertz backed up his police, but later had to back down when the city's parliament decided that the police had, in fact, used too much muscle. After that, internal party squabbles forced Albertz to resign. Last week, by a vote of 81 to 38, the West Berlin parliament gave the problem-packed mayoral post to energetic Klaus...
...Shah's attempts at political reform have been less thorough. He reopened Parliament in 1963, but uses it mostly for window dressing. All candidates must be approved by SAVAK, his powerful security police, and elections are so arranged as to give the Shah's Iran Novin (New Iran) Party an overwhelming majority of the seats. The Shah, in fact, makes little pretense of being a democrat. "For 2,500 years," he says, "we have had a monarchical system, which implies a certain amount of imposed authority." His word is law, and he keeps his Prime Minister, Amirabass Hoveida...
...Shah worries more about water than about criticism. "There is just not enough of it," he says. To make use of what there is, he has already built six major dams; eleven others are under construction. With intensive irrigation, the Shah believes that he could triple Iran's present arable land-now only 10% of its total area-and produce enough food to sustain a population of 75 million. To do so, however, will require more water than Iran's rainfall and rivers can provide, and the Shah intends to get it from the sea. He is negotiating...
Embarrassing Custom. As were their ancestors, the Iranians today are lovers of ceremony, formality and tradition. They expect their Shah to act like a king and treat them as subjects. When he appears in a village, they fall to earth to kiss his feet, a custom that causes him much embarrassment. In his private life, the Shah can unbend. He and Empress Farah-with their three children, Crown Prince Reza, 6, Princess Farahnaz, 4, and Prince Ali Reza, 17 months-live in Teheran's Saadabad Palace in the summer, move to the better-heated Niavaran Palace when the cold...