Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To develop its vast oil reserves, China will first need U.S. drilling equipment and technology. Teng got a look at both after breakfast at the Hughes Tool Co., where he finished the Houston leg of his trip by touring two dark, noisy and almost fully automated plants...
...psyche, bringing all the talent and all the obsession right to the surface. He and Director Carpenter contrive an introduction that eerily sets the tone of the movie and fixes their subject all at once: his I shadow deep on a white wall, Presley sits alone in a dark Las Vegas hotel room, dressed all in black, watching television from behind dark shades, waiting for the night and his first show. It's good drama and good rock 'n' roll...
...iron-fisted, shoot-first-ask-question-later image. Within a four-week period last year, white P.G. policemen fatally shot two unarmed black suspects. In nearby Washington, D.C., it is a standard warning that you don't venture into PG County unless absolutely necessary, and never at all after dark. "The police there don't take kindly to intruders, and they keep their own blacks squarely under thumb," as one black D.C. resident who used to live in P.G. County...
...LINE with this dark vision of Iran's potential leadership, the American media wrote of the mass opposition to the Shah in loaded, pejorative terms. Americans read of mobs rampaging, and Newsweek reported that "thousands of hysterical Iranians" wept for their dead. In contrast, the Shah emerged was the force of reason, and the only force that the United States could conceivably support to block the rising tide of anarchy...
...Aswan, the Shah spread out a series of maps to prove that "the Americans do not grasp the dimension of Soviet moves throughout the area." Later, addressing a joint session of the Egyptian and Sudanese parliaments in Khartoum, Sadat inserted a sword-rattling reference to Soviet "conspiracies in the dark" around the Horn of Africa. Aides said that Sadat had been prompted by the Shah's remarks...