Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birth to a mildly leftist but democratic society or a militant Marxist state. The five-member junta that rules the country has so far followed a middle-of-the-road course, promising elections, an economy based on a mixture of private and government enterprise, and an independent stance in foreign affairs. Although the junta remains united, there have been foreshadowings of an eventual breakdown in the alliance of radicals and moderates who combined to topple Somoza. Asked if he supported the junta's economic program, Minister of the Interior Tomás Borge Martinez, a guerrilla leader who denies...
Even more worrisome were the junta's foreign policy moves. In the first official visit by members of the junta to another country, Alfonso Robelo Callejas and Moises Hassan led a delegation of 23 guerrillas to Cuba. Fidel Castro was celebrating the 26th anniversary of his assault on Havana's Moncada barracks. Repaying the Palestine Liberation Organization for the arms and other support it provided during the Sandinistas' "final offensive," the new Nicaraguan government announced that it would seek a "close relationship" with Arab countries...
...illness was only a temporary shield from the political turmoil engendered by the harsh facts of Israel's runaway economic crisis: an 80% inflation that threatens to exceed 100% by the end of the year, a balance of payments deficit that is approaching $4 billion, a total foreign debt that has doubled in five years to $13 billion...
Meanwhile, to halt what Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi (see interview) has called "inaccurate reporting" by the foreign press, the Tehran government last week served notice that it was drawing up new restrictions on foreign reporters. New York Times Correspondent Youssef Ibrahim was ordered out of Iran. In early July David Lamb of the Los Angeles Times had also been expelled. No specific grounds were given for Ibrahim's ouster, but Yazdi said it was because of "the general tone of his reporting. American correspondents are not reporting accurately on Iran. We do not say everything is rosy...
...Other foreign journalists were subsequently called in to the Ministry of National Guidance and told that they must inform the ministry before leaving the capital and must check in with local officials when traveling. It was the first time the government had acted to restrict foreign reporters. At the same time, new legislation is being drawn up to tighten controls on the Iranian press. Among other things, the law would forbid "close associates of the Pahlavi regime" from owning or editing newspapers in Iran. It would also make it a crime to "insult" religious leaders or top government officials...