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After miraculously surviving an attempted assassination by machine gun two years ago, Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi said gratefully: "Allah saved my country again." It was not an idle boast. Among modern monarchs, the Shah, 47, is a pace-setting social reformer without whom Iran would long ago have turned to chaos. The trouble is that the Shah tempts Allah quite a bit. He zooms through the streets of Teheran at high speeds in his Ferrari-while police see to it that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed...
...ocean-going tugboat fleet, they tell some beguiling yarns about a young captain, name of Martinus Harinxma. Once, lost in a fog in a minefield, he unerringly determined his ship's position by tasting a sample of sea bottom brought up by the lead; while towing the Shah of Persia's yacht to the Caspian Sea via Russia, he smuggled two girls aboard at Stockholm and kept an orgy going in the Shah's big oval bed during the crossing to Leningrad...
...Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...
...what did Indonesia's first and only President think of it all? "I have no desire to be a king, a king of kings, a shah-in-shah," he told the Congress. "I want to participate in the leadership." Fortunately, the Congress had agreed to let him help Suharto select a new Cabinet. It was "help" that Suharto was not likely to make much use of, but still it gave the participation the Bung needed to save face. "When I heard this, my heart felt like going 'plong-plong,' " he said...
...scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan for a Polish tool fair...