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Taking a mineral water cure for "liver insufficiency," the Shah of Iran, 44, daily commuted the 25 miles from Florence to the Montecatini spa in his Mercedes or new grey Ferrari 330 coupé, hitting speeds of up to 130 m.p.h. The Shah's liver perked up after a fortnight, and his wife, Farah Diba, 25, came on down from Innsbruck, where she had been skiing since the Olympics. Then they tooled into Rome where Fair Farah and the monarch, who had been working so hard at his land-and government-reform programs that his doctors had ordered...
...bitter, controversial views on almost everything; irascibly, he lashed out in speeches at corruption in the government, dared even to criticize the coterie of advisers around Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi. Once he told the Shah how lucky the royal palace was to have a man like Ebtehaj around, a remark not calculated to amuse the sensitive monarch...
...appeared in a filmy black gown, without her tiara). He visibly caused raised eyebrows at one dinner by licking his fingers after heaping caviar on a slice of toast. Riding through the streets of Teheran in a gilded coach, Brezhnev defied custom when he turned his back on the Shah in his eagerness to wave back to crowds shouting Zindehbad Rafiq ("Long Live the Comrade...
...comrade, he had reason to cheer too. A year ago the Shah assured the Kremlin that Iran, though a charter member of CENTO, would not allow U.S. missiles to be based in the country (none had been there in the first place). As Iran shares an uneasy 1,500-mile border with the Soviet Union, Washington could hardly protest. Since then Iran has accepted all kinds of Soviet economic aid, including breeding facilities on the Caspian Sea for 3,500,000 sturgeon, which will put it in a better position to compete with Russian caviar. Just before Brezhnev...
...present, no clouds of misunderstanding darken the relations between Iran and the Soviet Union." But even as Brezhnev spoke, excited deputies whispered the latest news: 18 miles inside the Iranian border, three Soviet jets had shot down an unarmed Iranian plane on a photographic mapping mission for the Shah's land reform program, killing the Iranian surveyors. Unaware of the incident, amid cold stares from his audience, Brezhnev droned on, demonstrating once again the perils of what the Kremlin calls peace...