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At week's end the Shah planned to journey north from Italy to Switzerland, where two prominent Iranians are often to be found. One is his daughter Shahnaz (by his first marriage to Egypt's Princess Fawzia), but she had just left Lausanne for home, accompanied by a Swiss gynecologist. She is expecting a child, and the Shah insisted that it be born in Iran—if it is a son, he might be heir to the Iranian throne. The other is his handsome second wife, Soraya, whom he divorced because she had not provided him with a son. But her photograph is still prominently displayed in the palace in Teheran.
In the chaotic Middle East, worries over an heir to the throne are certainly preferable to plots to topple it. A veteran U.S. observer in Teheran allowed himself some tempered optimism about Iran: "I wouldn't say we are confident, but the situation today looks a helluva lot better than it did two or three months ago."