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...White House and the biggest company in the nation's basic industry. There hadn't been a business story like it in years. For White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, the job meant covering a President capable of presiding genially over a soirée for the Shah of Iran after issuing blistering directives to his lieutenants about the steel crisis. Having followed the President to sea, Sidey's final file came from the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Enterprise. Among businessmen in steel towns and elsewhere, our correspondents found a violence of opinion on the subject of both Blough...
Kennedy said: "I'm glad you can appreciate him. I'd much rather have Sardar." Where Jackie had thrilled to the beauty of India's Taj Mahal, built three centuries ago by the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan, as a memorial to his wife, in Pakistan she was excited by the glitter of the 80-acre Shalimar Gardens, built by the same ruler as a memorial to his father. There she strolled along a red-carpeted walk beside glistening pools, while balloons floated about her, fountains shimmered and 7,000 guests looked on. "All my life...
Thus last week, in a region close to the Russian border, the Shah officially launched the land reform program that he had signed into law on Jan. 15. Under the law, worked out by idealistic Agriculture Minister Hasan Arsanjani (who insists on serving without salary), a landlord may be forced to sell most of his holdings, is compensated by the government over a ten-year period. The Shah, who in the last decade has distributed to peasants more than half of his own 1,500,000 acres, is one of the few Iranian landlords with any liking for reform. Most...
Landlords are not alone in opposition to the reforms, long urged by the U.S. Five of the Shah's 16-man Cabinet voted against the law. Iran's Communists, fearing the loss of a traditional class-war propaganda issue, joined with rightists last month in staging bloody riots in Teheran. Some observers in Teheran fear that the reform plan may never get far beyond last week's dramatic giveaway. Even the Shah's close aides concede the project may well take 20 years. The peasants cannot be given land without first being taught marketing, crop rotation...
...last week it was clear that at least the peasants and the Shah are true believers in land reform. As the Shah left his crimson tent at Maragheh, he angrily ordered away the soldiers who were holding back the crowd with bayonets. For the first time in his life, the Shah walked alone and unprotected in the midst of his people. Weeping peasant women tried to kiss his hand or foot; those who could not reach him ran to kiss his royal car instead. Driving away from the dark, muddy plain, the Shah could hear the peasants shouting after...