Kissinger aid for Shah
NZPA-ReuterCoiumbia, , South Carolina.] The former United States Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger, confirmed yesterday that he had helped the deposed Shah of Iran find a home in Mexico. “I appealed to the Mexican President because, unfortunately, our own Government wouldn’t do anything,” Dr Kissinger said at a news conference. He was in Columbia, South Carolina, to speak at a republican fund-raising dinner. “I felt the United States had a moral obligation to
.stand by a man . . . who .(had been a friend,” Dr Kissii'nger said, ”... 1 thought we uhad a moral obligation to • show the world that some : Americans stand by those i who have stood beside the United States.” The Shah and his family - left the Bahamas on Sunday - and flew to Mexico. The Shah is renting, for more than $lOOO a day, a > mansion outside the Mexican , city of Cuernavaca. i Dr Kissinger travelled to Cuernavaca to see the for- > mer Shah and his family on > their first day in residence.
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