Persia: Rugs Over the Garbage.

The article focuses on Tehran, Iran, which is one of a half-dozen Asian cities, which describe themselves as the "Paris of the East." Women of fashion dress in the latest Paris style. Social life is highly polished, even decadent. The government seems to have more control and a better sense of direction than it had four years ago. There is no autonomous, pro-Soviet regime in the north to cause concern. Tribal leaders who were formerly independent rulers now join in central government politics. The army, which used to be disrupted by conflicts between rightist, pro-British senior commanders and leftist, pro-Soviet junior officers, has been unified and somewhat modernized by the Chief of Staff.