Word: gulf
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Meanwhile Soviet freighters at Haiphong were unloading resupplies of sophisticated hardware, including missiles and radar equipment. Soviet reconnaissance kept watch on the battlefronts with high-altitude sorties over the Gulf of Tonkin. A flotilla of 13 Soviet ships cruised the South China Sea, awaiting the arrival of the flagship of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, the 16,000-ton cruiser Admiral Senyavin...
...State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was off on an important state visit to Mexico. No sooner had he arrived there than President José LÓpez Portillo welcomed him with a public scolding. In the midst of all this, Carter learned that two Persian Gulf sheikdoms were taking advantage of the Iranian crisis to raise their oil prices 7%, a blow to his antinflation campaign...
While attempting to create a new policy for the Persian Gulf, Carter must also try to revive the spirit of Camp David. Returning to | that secluded presidential retreat this week, Vance meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Premier Moustafa Khalil in an effort to resolve the issues still blocking the peace outlined at September's summit...
Whatever the pros and cons of the Administration's Iran policy, the crisis in the Persian Gulf has contributed to the impression of an Administration that reacts rather than initiates, and too often reacts in surprise and confusion. This seems to have been particularly true in its changing policy toward Peking. The timing and tone of the normalization announcement were managed by China, not by the U.S. The Chinese were impatient to get on with normalization. They also liked the idea of consummating their deal with the Americans before a signing of SALT II at a Carter-Brezhnev summit...
Reported TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak from Washington: "The Carter crackdown reflected a fear that any policy dissonance would further prejudice U.S. interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf region at large. Despite Carter's open endorsement of the Bakhtiar regime last month, U.S. officials were quietly pleased by Khomeini's choice of Bazargan as transitional Prime Minister. He is viewed by Washington as a patient, conciliatory figure who can get the oilfields pumping again and possibly harness the disparate opposition forces as well as the nervous pro-Shah elements within the military leadership. State Department specialists who have...