10/2 Dear Mum Thank you for your letter of Sept 21. Perhaps by how Louisa has filled you in on our last telephone call. This is indeed an unnatural situation, But 3 month is not forever. (over) I am enjoying my work roughly what I did in Beirut in my first assignment there, but challenging in that I have 3 month, to do what is normally accomplished in 3 years. Tehran is very tranquil. A few episodes - a Muslim irregular confiscating some wine bottles from an officer as he was carrying them, along with other commissary Page 2 purchases from the back gate of the Embassy compound To his car. Immediate protest To the Foreign Ministry. But no violence. The city is a vast, rather ugly urban sprawl. The countryside is beautiful we can hire Emb cars and driver for the weekends, and I plan to do just that Last Summer was wonderful Really saved my sanity after a difficult stretch in Washington. Fun to be with my family I have written to Duncan, pointing our that Khomeini had banned music on the radio because it made people think about sex. No mention of stereor [sic]. M