Word: give
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending with Jimmy Carter, who told the Shah in 1977, "Iran is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world. This is a great tribute to you, Your Majesty, and to your leadership and to the respect, admiration and love which your people give...
...that, although the Shah could be a most stubborn and inconvenient ally (former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon once called him "a nut"), he was on the whole a force for stability and moderation in the Middle East. In return for all the American help, the Shah did give a valuable assist to the U.S. in strategic, though hardly in economic, policy. Among other things, he set up electronic listening posts close to the Soviet border from which the CIA could monitor Soviet missile tests...
...hours. Then our government politely demands that if that's the case, well, for our public opinion, be nice enough and allow Iranian physicians to go check. That request was refused by the U.S. Government. Then we realize that the U.S. Government doesn't give a damn about public opinion in our country and by accepting the Shah, deliberately and openly tries to insult our people, our revolution and our ideals. That was intolerable. Then these students felt they had been tremendously insulted and doublecrossed. They acted by themselves. They took the embassy...
...have thrown their support to Treen, whose buttoned-down conservatism they prefer to Lambert's unbuckled populism. In a televised debate, Lambert strongly implied that Treen had offered to pay off the campaign debts of House Speaker Edgerton L. ("Bubba") Henry and State Senator Edgar ("Sonny") Mouton and give them top jobs in his administration in exchange for their support. The outraged legislators claimed that Lambert made the offer, not Treen, and they challenged Lambert to join them in taking a lie detector test. Then Charles ("Buddy") Roemer III, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last fall, charged that Lambert...
...lady said she couldn't give me my scores, so I asked if she could give me a range for them. I know some of my friends called and were told that their scores were between, say, 600 and 650, or whatever...