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just a couple of blocks from the old, red-stone Normandy Hotel where
we had usually stayed in Beirut and a couple of blocks from the famous
old St. George Hotel on the Beirut waterfront. I spent the day with Ta-
pline people (Trans-Arabian Pipeline). The next afternoon Honey and I
shopped in the gold market in Beirut. We each purchased old U.S. gold
coins, which were almost surely counterfeit, but we got a kick out of it.

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to anyone who had grown up in Salt Lake City. There are high, snow-
capped mountains east of the city sloping across a wide valley to lower
mountains in the west. We found the Tehran Hilton to be lovely indeed.
I spent time with personnel people at the Iranian Consortium.

The next day, Saturday, was a non-work day. We were provided
a car and driver so we chose to drive up into the mountains. It was early
spring and the trees were beginning to leaf out and the snow to melt. We
went through a tunnel high in the mountains and emerged to an entirely
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the houses were built on stilts in many areas. We stayed overnight at a
motel and the next day went to a caviar factory. In fact, the Caspian
Sea was shrinking and increasingly polluted, so that the sturgeon were
rapidly decreasing.
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producing center, Masjid-I-Suliman in south central Iran. The manage-
ment group there was all Iranian and was an impressive group. The
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I met with several Americans who were assigned there from Chevron.
We were invited to a very lovely luncheon. Winston Churchill’s grand-
son, also named Winston Churchill, was a member of the British Parlia-
ment at the time. He and his wife were the honored guests. They were
very charming people with extremely good manners – they had to leave
early, but went around and shook the hands of each guest before depart-
ing. The Iranians were openly conscious of a possible invasion by Iraq.
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numerous anti-aircraft guns.

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