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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some panelists were afraid that showing the flag would hurt, not help, the U.S. and its true friends. Bill felt that "we have an excellent chance in Iran-unless, of course, we send some aircraft carriers storming over there." In Bill's mind, any attempt by the U.S. to form an old-fashioned mutual defense alliance-"Baghdad Pact II, CENTO n, something like that"-would also work against the U.S. Such a step, warned Bill, "would certainly force the Iranians into the hands of the Soviets...
...removed or destroyed before the base was taken over, the episode raised new doubts about the security of the 77 advanced F-14 fighters that the U.S. has supplied to Iran. No American has been allowed to inspect them for three weeks, in part because the Iranians fear an attempt to destroy the equipment to prevent any possibility of its falling into Soviet hands. But the Carter Administration privately admits that there is little it can do to safeguard the planes. "They are entirely in the hands of the Iranians," said a U.S. intelligence officer last week. "They bought them...
...conflict came at an awkward moment for Saudi Arabia; its Foreign Minister, Prince Saud, was receiving his South Yemeni counterpart when the violence broke out. The two men had been arranging a visit to Riyadh by South Yemen's President, Abdel Fattah Ismail, in an attempt to relax regional tensions, ultimately leading to the departure of a reported 3,900 Soviet, Cuban and East German troops and advisers harbored by the South Yemen government. The Saudis, who have underwritten 1 billion dollars in arms for the northern San'a regime, immediately put their 45,000-man army...
DIED. Mustafa Barzani, 75, Kurdish nationalist leader who waged guerrilla war for 40 years in a futile attempt to win a homeland in northeastern Iraq for his people; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Wishing to establish an autonomous Kurdistan for his 12 million Muslim tribesmen scattered throughout Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, Barzani led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Iraqi government in the mid-1930s. Fleeing to Moscow, where he spent twelve years in exile, he returned to his native land in 1958 to reorganize his guerrilla army, the Pesh Merga (Forward to Death). After...
Gold, in fact, does not change, despite Heller's facile attempt to conclude the novel with a hint of cultural reconciliation. Which is just as well. For Gold works best as a caricature in a burlesque about hypocrisy, jealousy and status lust...