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Favored with dark good looks, an elegant wardrobe and an arsenal of jewelry, Princess Ashraf, 52-year-old twin sister of the Shah of Iran, has long traveled the world as a figure of enigmatic glamour. Sometimes there were troubles—as when French officials discovered her trying to take $2,260 in undeclared francs out of the country—but that only made her all the more a figure of mystery. Then, last spring, the respected Paris newspaper Le Monde alleged that a suitcase containing several kilos of heroin had been found among the princess's luggage at Geneva airport. The princess denied it all, and so did the Swiss authorities. Le Monde printed a retraction, but the princess pressed a suit for $100,000, declaring that she wanted not money but vindication. A Paris court therefore ordered Le Monde to pay $200 in damages. The princess was pleased, saying, "I have no resentment against the press."
From her home in Paris, and virtually everywhere she goes, Actress Melina Mercouri has repeatedly denounced the military-backed regime in her native Greece—so noisily that the authorities took away her citizenship. When her father's body was to be brought from London to Athens last March, Mercouri was refused permission to attend the burial ceremony. But when her mother died last week, the authorities relented: Mercouri could return home for 13 hours, and only if she promised to make no public statements. "Let me smell the Athens sea air I love," said the actress. Then she went to the funeral, put a tape cassette of her songs into the coffin and resumed her exile.
After sampling the sights of Moscow and Peking, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger turned up in Hollywood, accompanied by his children and two other tourists, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Mrs. Dobrynin. They trooped through the Universal Studio, and the children got autographs from Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Dennis Weaver. Then Dobrynin tried a little acting of his own. He hoisted a huge foam-rubber rock high over his head and pretended to threaten Kissinger. "Throw it at me," Kissinger taunted. "You've always wanted to." Dobrynin smiled and put the prop down.