Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the operative phrase in Carter's press conference was his vow to pursue a "peaceful solution." Accordingly, the U.S. filed suit against Iran in the International Court of Justice at The Hague, asking that Tehran be ordered to free the hostages and return the embassy to U.S. control. The court can adjudicate disputes between nations under a 1961 convention that was signed by both the U.S. and Iran. Court President Sir Humphrey Waldock summoned the 15 judges to a hearing next Monday. He also asked Iran to send a representative. Nonetheless, the suit was largely a symbolic gesture...
...thousands of his subjects, a thief who looted Iran of untold billions. At the other extreme, the Shah's defenders cite the praises heaped on him by seven U.S. Presidents, beginning with Harry Truman, who lauded the Shah's "courage and farsightedness," and ending with Jimmy Carter, who told the Shah in 1977, "Iran is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world. This is a great tribute to you, Your Majesty, and to your leadership and to the respect, admiration and love which your people give...
...extensive American business investment in Iran; in its heyday the list of major U.S. corporations with operations in Iran looked like a not-too-abridged version of the FORTUNE 500. A sizable army of American technicians -engineers, teachers, military men on training missions-moved into the country. President Carter in his press conference last week asserted that in the Shah's last days no fewer than 70,000 Americans were in Iran. Considerable traffic flowed the other way, too; Washington ended the last training programs for Iranian jet pilots in the U.S. only two weeks...
...White House also bridled at Kissinger's statements. "He is a devious and dishonorable man," one top Carter aide told reporters. "He'll go off and make cheap political statements and then call up privately and assure us that he supports the way the President is handling the crisis...
Here's Jimmy Carter with 19 warships in the Indian Ocean area, trying to figure out the Ayatullah Khomeini, neutralize Henry Kissinger, keep abreast of the Shah's gallstones, and suddenly this Idaho character wanders into Tehran and tries to take over the President...