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Lyndon Johnson hit Teheran as though he were running for Shah-and if the warmth of his welcome was an indication, he might be able to get the job. With Wife Lady Bird and Daughter Lynda Bird, 18, the Vice President swept down Eisenhower Boulevard, so named after Ike's 1959 visit. Three times Johnson confused his smartly uniformed police escort by halting the motorcade and hopping out of his car to grasp all the outstretched hands within reach (one observer counted 300 in five minutes). The crowds responded with the highest praise they knew: "Javid Shah!" (Long live...
Iranian embassies around the world firmly denied the press reports that Queen Farah, 24, was expecting a second child-until someone thought to check with the lady herself. "Yes," said the young Queen, "some time in March." Two years ago, when Farah presented the Shah with his first male heir in three marriages, he cut income taxes by 20%, and his subjects went wild with joy. But with Iran's Peacock Throne already promised to the tiny crown prince, Teheran took the news of a second blessed event in stride. The Queen says she hopes for a girl this...
Workers opposed Amini because austerity caused rising unemployment; intellectuals and students hated him because he suspended Parliament and ruled by decree; wealthy businessmen and many government officials fought his vigorous anticorruption efforts; large landowners tried to scuttle his land-reform program. Even Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi was cool to Amini, because the Premier's family was a member of the ruling dynasty that the Shah's father overthrew in 1921. Faced by such adversaries, the surprise was not that Amini finally resigned, but that he had survived so long...
Powerful Friend. Amini's replacement is the Shah's boyhood buddy, Assadollah Alam, 43, a frequent fixture of Teheran governments, and known for his willingness to carry out the monarch's orders. Educated at a British school in Iran, Alam was Minister of the Interior at 29, early displayed what an American acquaintance describes as a combination of native toughness and Y.M.C.A. dedication...
...family. Once, when a would-be assassin was nabbed outside his door, Alam gave the man $40, then had him thrashed and sent into the street without his pants. In 1953, Alam helped organize the counterrevolution that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh. Before taking over last week as the Shah's chief minister, Alam was the director of the Pahlevi Foundation, a charitable trust worth at least $133 million, set up by the Shah to finance social-welfare plans out of the profits from royal holdings in banks, industries, hotels...