The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 45, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 November 1979 — Page 12

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., November 28,1979

Publisher remembers Teheran and Islamabad in better times

By ARCH BAUMGARTNER All of this anti-Americanism and holding of Americans hostage in the American Embassy in Iran, and the burning and sacking of the American Embassy in Pakistan, saddens us like it does all Americans. There is a special feeling of sadness since we visited both capital cities, Teheran in Iran and Islamabad in Pakistan, during our visit of this sub-Asian area from February 3 to 26 of 1978. It wasn't that long ago; and the memories are fresh. Teheran Bustling We found Teheran a bustling city, full of progress and prosperity. They were using the immense profits of their oil sales to good advantage. We were told their economic progress was so great that the government was trying to slow it down. Since* we were newspaper people (most all of us members of the National Newspaper Association) we had many occasions to interview government officials. This we did in Teheran, and were given a good reception. Our relations with the people of Iran were never greater than they were when we visited there. America, just a year and a half ago, viewed Iran as a friendly country, a buffer state on the south border of Russia —a friend in the right place, so to speak. Visit Prime Minister While we never saw or spoke to the Shah, who was in the full bloom of his power at that time, we did have a press conference with his hand-picked Prime Minister. H E Jamshid Amouzager. He referred to the Shah as a “benevolent Monarchy." in Teheran they spoke of the “White Revolution" the Shah and his beautiful Empress had

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U.S, EMBASSY AT ISLAMABAD — This photo of the United States Embassy at Islamabad. Pakistan, was taken in February I’MX. definitely better, more friendly times, by Arch Baumgartner, author of the accompanying article on a visit to Pakistan and other sub-Asian continents with members of the National Newspaper Association. Just over a week ago the embassy was sacked and burned and two Americans lay dead in the aftermath.

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brought about. It was a lifting of the women’s veil, for one thing, and the women seemed to like it. “The word ’white’ refers to the fact that the revolution has been bloodless,” we wrote in The MailJournal following that visit. We quote further from what we wrote at that time, showing that what we found missed the mark considerably from what the bearded Ayatollah Khomeini has been able to whip into revolutionary furvor; “In education, for example, the country had a literacy rate that stood at 20 per cent, and now it is something over 40 per cent. This has come about by having all high school graduates serve a period of not less than six months in the villages, teaching basic skills and languages. Doctors must serve a period, up to two years in the rural areas with the government paying their salaries. This practice has raised life expectancy to 50 years in Iran, something of a phenomenon in this part of the world. In Afghanistan, where we just left, mortality rate for children is 50 per cent up to five years of age, and it wasn't much better here in Iran prior to the White Revolution. “In land reform, the Shah gave away most of his holdings, something considerable and amassed by his father. We were told by a government spokesman that for centuries rich landlords had share-crop farmers vote for them, and they in turn continued to enact restrictive measures, a never-ending process to keep the poor in a state of servitude. “And now, that the land has been divided up, in small tracts to be sure, there is a feeling of pride and purpose among small farmers. Is it any wonder the Shah is popular?” Later we visited and had lunch with Mostafa Mezbahzadeh,

publisher of Kayhan, Iran’s largest daily newspaper with a circulation of 350,000 We left him with no feeling at all that all was not right in Iran between the Iranian people and the American people. We were purchasing their oil, educating their students in American universities, and they were buying American products, among them sophisticated American-made war weapons. Progress appeared to be moving too fast for the ayatollah and his Islamic principals. We have since learned that his principals would take the country back several hundreds of years. The odd thing is that he has been able to sell these principals in an outherwise prosperous and progressive country. The beautiful Inter-Continental Hotel where we stayed is nearly empty of foreigners, especially the back bars. Our group never visited the Embassy at Teheran where the Americans are now held hostage. At Islamabad We did, however, visit the American Embassy at Islamabad, which was sacked and burned during the past week. We had a press conference with U.S. Ambassador Arthur W. Hummel, Jr., who was at the Embassy during the trauma of a week ago. He appeared on U.S. television following the sacking. Prior to meeting the Ambassador we spoke with Agha Shahi, Pakistan Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he laced American foreign policy, but good. He said it was ridiculous to hold elections every four years, as we Americans do, in that it tends to give foreign policy an inconsistency. He also scored the American press for not telling “the Pakistan story." Pakistan is a good country. Moslem to be sure, and a breakoff from India when India won its

independence from England in 1947, following 300 years of Colonialism. While Pakistan is Moslem, India is Hindu. General Zia ul-Haq, Chief of the Pakistan Army and Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), practically gave us the key to the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, and had a nationallytelevised press conference with our group. He gave every appearance of liking America and the Americans. He telephoned

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ahead and had the Commanding Officer at the Kyber Pass give us “royal treatment” as we left Pakistan for Afghanistan. We recall well taking the tour bus from our hotel in Rawalpindito Islamabad where we spoke to Ambassador Hummel and the others. Islamabad is the new capital city of Pakistan, much like Canberra, Australia, or Brazilia. Brazil, built from scratch in the

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