Dubai

📗 "Fitz left the intelligence staff meeting at the U. S. Embassy in Tehran at 10:30 a.m. He turned onto Rozvelt Avenue, the large street dedicated to the U.S. president who organized the famous Tehran summit meeting near the end of World War II, and began the one-hour walk to the giant Bazaar, forerunner by a cen­tury to the supermarkets of America. He enjoyed walking Tehran's streets, and of all his foreign assignments this was the most challenging and exhilarating of his twenty-year military ca­reer, combat duty in Korea and Vietnam excepted. Tehran might seem to the casual visitor a city devoted exclu­sively to street selling and buying. Everything was for sale. But to Fitz it was the world's foremost city of intrigue, strategically lo­cated between the Middle East and Asia. And Tehran was the great international transfer point between Israel and the Arab world. This was the city in which to pause, switch or alter pass­ports, and then proceed..."