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- PEOPLE, Page 84A New Shade Of ShahBy Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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- He was born Reza Cyrus Pahlavi, and by inheritance he is
- Shahanshah, King of Kings, master of the Peacock Throne. But last
- week Reza Shah II, 28, seemed to be campaigning for office,
- behavior quite beneath his late autocratic father Mohammed Reza
- Shah. In Los Angeles the exiled Iranian prince rallied a crowd of
- 12,000 royalists, saying, "Our struggle has started and shall
- conclude in victory." He is also talking like a democrat. In
- Washington, before an audience of 600 including Jeanne Kirkpatrick,
- he said, "My goal is not to restore the monarchy. We will abide by
- what the majority decide." Talking egalitarian is dandy, but how
- come people still call him Your Majesty?