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Died. Hussein Ala, 81, Court Minister of Iran since 1957, one of the Shah's oldest and ablest advisers, a reform-minded, pro-West politician who won worldwide notice in March 1946 when he stood before the U.N. Security Council and called attention to the illegal Russian occupation of Iran's Azerbaijan Province, raised such a storm that the Reds withdrew in the face of world opinion; of pneumonia; in Teheran...
...Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran -L.H.D. He has given his support and his best efforts, in the face of the controversy that such fundamental reforms provoke, to the achievement of land and economic reforms...
...Swingle Singers, who perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan's King Hussein. Now came a non-Arab Moslem, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his Empress Farah Diba, to whom Johnson gave cowboy suits for their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, changes Premiers as casually as other men change suits. In Teheran last week, he courteously turned out Assadollah Alam, the 17th Premier in the Shah's 22-year reign, and appointed as Premier No. 18 elegant Hassanali Mansur, who holds a degree in economics and political science from Paris University and is married to an Iranian beauty and heiress named Farideh Emami...
Outgoing Premier Alam had spent 19 months in office, taking over a bankrupt treasury from his predecessor and building up a foreign exchange balance of more than $100 million. Alam had also fought hard for the Shah's "white revolution," which is aimed at bettering the lot of Iran's desperately poor 16 million peasants, while curbing the absentee landowners and mullahs (Moslem priests), who bitterly oppose all reforms. But Alam, an old personal friend of the Shah, had come to power in the awkward period in 1962 when there was no Majlis (parliament), and the Shah ruled...