Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shahpour] Bakhtiar [whom the Shah named Prime Minister before he left Iran] was a loser. For a little more than a month, Bakhtiar played the game of losing, with us patting him on the back and providing him with support. Bakhtiar predictably is gone down the pipe also." Bill felt that the U.S. had thereby lost-though not irretrievably-a chance to influence the Khomeini-installed government...
...step would be to shore up the friendly Bulent Ecevit government in Turkey. Said Tahtinen: "We have to find a way to keep the present Turkish government afloat, to provide it $2 billion a year for the next five years to prevent a collapse." The aid should come, Tahtinen felt, not only from the U.S. but from other NATO countries and possibly Saudi Arabia, "which has an interest in stability in the region...
...some panelists were afraid that showing the flag would hurt, not help, the U.S. and its true friends. Bill felt that "we have an excellent chance in Iran-unless, of course, we send some aircraft carriers storming over there." In Bill's mind, any attempt by the U.S. to form an old-fashioned mutual defense alliance-"Baghdad Pact II, CENTO n, something like that"-would also work against the U.S. Such a step, warned Bill, "would certainly force the Iranians into the hands of the Soviets...
...Akins, 52, is a career Foreign Service officer, now retired, who was long a leading State Department Arabist and oil-policy expert. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1973 until late 1975, but was dismissed following policy disputes with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Akins felt Saudi Arabia, not Iran, should have been the prime focus of U.S. interests in the region...
...Scotland would "be good for nothing more than to tart up a few British ceremonies." But the antidevolution forces, led by the Conservative Party, mounted a late-blooming campaign that focused on an even more basic Scottish instinct: they charged that the cost of home rule would be quickly felt in the form of higher taxes. Some Scots also began to ponder the fact that devolution might lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom, which none but the most extreme nationalists want...