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Harvard announces that it has just signed a two-year, $2 million, no-cut contract with the Iranian government to develop and promote a giant amusement park complex outside Tehran. Chief Planner Harold Goyette calls the deal "an exciting prospect," adding that he has no reservations about being under contract to the repressive Iranian regime. "The kids will enjoy riding the roller coaster and the log flume. This will tend to 'open up' the regime, I think. I have no problem with any sort of torture in this case, save that bore of riding on substandard log flumes or roller...
...Iran remains a one-party state and in fact a one-man dictatorship," TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn reported last week after a visit to Tehran. "But in a few months the police-state atmosphere has altered drastically to a mood of vastly greater individual freedom and relaxation. Among knowledgeable Iranians it is taken for granted that the liberalization was at least partly in response to the Carter campaign. The Shah apparently feels he has a better chance to buy American military hardware if he burnishes his image...
Foreign black star listings include seven fields in Colombia; three in Australia; Rhodes and Corfu in Greece; and eleven others, including Iran's huge airport at Tehran...
...Substitute. The war did settle one thing: as a regional headquarters for businessmen, diplomats, educators and journalists involved in the Middle East, there is no adequate substitute for Beirut. Neither Cairo nor Athens, Amman nor Tehran has proved able to match prewar Beirut in services, location, accommodations, creature comforts and just plain fun. Nor does any other city offer the combination of political, economic and cultural freedom that was the special Beirut cachet. But can that old Beirut of amiable permissiveness ever be reconstructed...
...Most critical of the three is military sales, with Iran--according to a U.S.-Iranian announcement in Tehran--planning to buy another $10 billion worth of American weaponry...