Word: angers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years Iranians have watched with growing frustration and anger the continued support of the U.S. for the ex-Shah, allowing him to carry out a policy of repression and corruption...
...should anyone be moved to anger by the educational plans of a 19-year-old black kid from a small town on the sandy banks of the Pamlico River? Because North Carolina is basketball country, that's why. It is a state where few issues besides tobacco prices and Joe Califano's antismoking campaign can generate as much passionate controversy as basketball. To Tar Heels, especially those in obscure backwaters like Washington (pop. 9,000), young men like Dominique Wilkins tend to be regarded as state monuments. Dominique is 6 ft. 7 in. tall. He can hang...
...their middleman role, Aramco's American chiefs plainly have divided loyalties. From Chairman John J. Kelberer, a career-long Aramco engineering manager, on down, executives remain determined to do nothing that would anger their Saudi hosts or jeopardize the company's concession. During the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Aramco's executives not only did as they were told by the Saudi government, but cut back production by more than requested just to show that they were good Saudi corporate citizens...
...been hurt economically by the loss of the $800 million or so in Arab aid it used to get annually, or by the Arab countries' refusal to do business with Cairo; before the boycott, those states accounted for only 7% of Egypt's trade. Arab anger remains high; the Egyptians expect that all of their postal, telephone and telex links to other Arab countries, as well as the remaining airline flights, will be severed in March, when Egypt and Israel plan to open embassies in Jerusalem and Cairo. Still, some top Egyptians believe that the boycott will...
...this encounter of East and West, the rage on either side has a way of spiraling up in a murderous double helix: the anger of the Muslims may feed on itself, and the countering anger of the West may further ignite the anger of Islam. So great is the mutual incomprehension that international relations degenerate rapidly to the chaotic psychology of the mob. Although U.S. reactions have been, all things considered, remarkably mild, the Iranian crisis has legitimized among Americans a new stereotype of the demented Muslim. Says University of Wisconsin Historian Kemal H. Karpat: "Khomeini has done more harm...