Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini's metaphor. Jimmy Carter, frustrated by the failure of his economic pressures to win the release of the 50 American hostages, let it be known that he was seriously considering a naval blockade. Before it comes to that, however, he is formally asking the United Nations Security Council this week to impose some form of economic sanctions on Iran-a step that has been taken only once before, against Rhodesia in 1966. Noting that Tehran has repeatedly ignored U.N. pleas for the hostages' release, Carter declared on nationwide TV: "Iran stands in arrogant defiance of the world...
Experts assessing the balance of forces in Tehran believed Khomeini and his reactionary mullahs were still very much in command of the divided Revolutionary Council. But the situation took a complicating turn when two gunmen assassinated one of Khomeini's close colleagues, Mohammad Mofatteh, dean of Tehran University's College of Theology, and two of Mofatteh's bodyguards. Although an anonymous caller to the state news agency claimed that the killings were committed by a previously unknown terrorist group called P.M., Khomeini and his followers characteristically blamed the assassinations on the U.S. Said the victim...
President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers had its own glum set of figures on the Caracas spinoff: consumer prices will climb by 1% more than they would otherwise have during 1980, and some 250,000 more workers will lose jobs. U.S. economic output will be shaved by some $17 billion, while $10 billion will be added to the nation's balance of payments deficit...
...words were backed by the kind of action that is rapidly becoming the hallmark of Britain's fighting lady. During a two-hour morning session with Carter in the Oval Office, Thatcher pledged to support the U.S. if Washington asked the United Nations Security Council to impose economic sanctions against Iran. "You would expect nothing less and you will receive nothing less but our full support," the Prime Minister told reporters. Carter and his aides were visibly delighted. At one point Carter said, "I want the American people to get to know you as I have come to know...
...Vatican terms that meant that Küng, 51, must stop teaching Catholic theology at West Germany's University of Tubingen. It is the harshest action against any important scholar since the era before the liberalizing breezes of the Second Vatican Council, and one that was explicitly endorsed by Pope John Paul II. During the Vatican Council Küng was an adviser to the West German hierarchy. His moderate reformist concepts won the admiration of, among others, the Polish bishop who became John Paul II. But since the council, Kung has more and more acted as a kind...