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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These sentiments were expressed before the rescue mission; in the wake of that failed effort, there was a strong feeling that Carter had misled the allies. Said a top Common Market official: "Why does the U.S. count on the Europeans so much when what the Europeans do turns out to be irrelevant?" The allies went to "great trouble" to form a common position in support of Carter, said this official, only to confront what he called "another flipflop" in U.S. policy. Among America's allies the most damaging immediate fallout from the aborted mission was the reinforcement...
...reason Iranian exports no longer count for so much is that the Khomeini regime has pushed up petroleum prices so high that customers have ceased their pay-any-price scramble for Iranian supplies. The leader of the rush last autumn was Japan, which was willing to pay as much as $40 per bbl. But by last week Japan had bulging oil stockpiles, and the country refused Iran's latest asking price of $35 per bbl. for long-term supply contracts. Iran immediately cut off all energy shipments to Japan, which now joins the U.S. and Portugal on Tehran...
Outside the Indian reservations, the sexual objections count less than criticisms of Hill's scholarship. She translates the book's title as "Clear the Way," and argues that it is both a war cry and a metaphysical statement of Lakota spiritualism. Among contemporary Sioux, her critics say, hanta yo is simply a throwaway phrase for dismissing an irritating child -equivalent to the English "scram...
About the only barriers to the Crimson steamroller--if you don't count a loss in the second slot--were a couple of stop lights in downtown Providence; once the bus got to Brown, the Crimson dominated play all afternoon...
Steel's thundering serves soundly defeated Pompan. With the Big Green player pounding out the northern New Hampshire equivalent of Titan II missiles, all Pompan could do was duck and swing. That strategy worked pretty well--if you don't count the seven aces--but he finally lost in the third set tiebreaker...