Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city, built along the banks of the sluggish Tigris River, was one of the principal locales of The Thousand and One Nights. Today, with 20-story buildings rising above its graceful mosques, it looks every bit the citadel of Baath power that may soon stretch from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...
...will for any covert operations to date. But government statements of support, matched by the editorial expressions of major papers across the country mounted an attempt to alter the will of the Iranian people. Heavy-handed gestures including the expansion of U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf area further alienated Iranians who had once been inspired by the Carter human rights stance. Even the relatively limited efforts by public and private U.S. organizations to impose a U.S. solution on Iranian disputes have now blocked most chances for the U.S. to work closely with any new Iranian government. Just...
Henry Kissinger says about Iran: "The remedial measures that are needed in this crisis should receive bipartisan support. There will be opportunities later to discuss what went wrong." This reasoning led to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Thanks for the reminder, Henry...
...Shah directly blames President Carter for the collapse of Iran. He told one high-ranking foreign visitor, TIME has learned, that he was appalled by Carter's statement that the U.S. no longer needs a policeman in the Persian Gulf. Although the President pledged the Shah undying brotherhood in a New Year's Eve toast at the Niavaran Palace in 1977, the Shah claims that he was subsequently plagued by continued sniping from Washington. As the crisis worsened, the Shah was made to feel unsure about U.S. support if he took strong action to control the disorders...
...such a situation, refineries should be able to tap emergency supplies from the Government's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but the three-year-old program is a shambles. Construction work is far behind schedule at the massive underground salt domes along the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast, where approximately a one-month supply of oil, or 248 million bbl., is supposed to be stored by year's end. So far only about 80 million bbl. of crude-little more than a week's supply-has been stockpiled. What is more, Energy Department technicians are still struggling with technical...