Word: baku
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From across the Soviet border, Iran has been subjected to an unprecedented propaganda campaign of hate against the Shah. Powerful transmitters at Baku and Tashkent, between bursts of fine Persian music, devoted more time to programs in Parsi than the Russians spend on any other foreign-language broadcast except English. "Foreigners are pouring into Iran like ants and locusts, depriving Iranians of their rights," cried Russia on the air. The Shah and the landlords around him are secreting millions of dollars of oil profits in New York and London bank accounts, charged one Communist commentator. At the rate the Shah...
...East Germans an industrial specialty: chemicals. The East Germans are under orders to exploit their only significant natural resource-lignite, or brown coal-as the wartime Nazis did, to make coke, gases, diesel oil and synthetic products in vastly increased quantities. Russia has promised to build a pipeline from Baku to East Germany to pump 5,000,000 tons of oil, with which a petrochemical industry based on the giant former I. G. Farben plants at Leuna, Halle and Bitterfeld can double East Germany's output of plastics and synthetic fibers...
Baghdad is 600 miles from the Soviet city of Baku-about as far as Washington, D.C. is from Chicago. For centuries Russian imperialism groped without success for the power lodgment in the Middle East that the Soviet Union hopefully sees itself about to win. The Western powers had agreed to a summit meeting with Russia about the Middle East; and the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad all saluted this as a great Soviet breakthrough. "The Arabs are not Marxists," said Nikita Khrushchev last week. "But we hail them. National liberation is the first step...
Charge It. After that the Russian treatment of the nine men got better. They were flown to Baku, were interrogated frequently (the Air Force would not let the airmen disclose the Russian questions), were fed four times a day before their release ten days later. But when the Air Force men's reports were in, the State Department fired off a protest against 1) the MIG attack upon an unarmed U.S. transport, 2) the brutal mistreatment of the airmen by the Armenian peasants. Said State: "To suggest that a slow, four-engine propeller-type unarmed aircraft would attempt...
...suburban Constantinople. Calouste adopted an old Arab proverb as his first business maxim while palm-priming the sultan's retinue with baksheesh: "The hand you dare not bite, kiss it." Priming himself with a civil engineering degree at London's King's College, Calouste visited the Baku oilfields in 1888, and in his 20th year wrote an authoritative book on the Baku petroleum industry. It was the overture to decades of what Gulbenkian called "orchestrations" -concessions, mergers, consortia, nervy negotiations, adamantine patience. The conclusion consisted of the words "to C. S. Gulbenkian ... in perpetuity...