Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, no matter how intransigent Ghotbzadeh's rhetoric, his problem is the same one faced by Banisadr: the great gulf between Khomeini's determination to get the Shah and Jimmy Carter's refusal to hand him over. Moreover, Ghotbzadeh's task is complicated by the absence now of almost any moderating force in the country that could help build diplomatic bridges between Tehran and Washington. To stay out of trouble with the all-powerful Khomeini, most of the moderates are lying low. Asked three tunes at a news conference about the National Front, which for a time was Iran...
...Iran." For safety's sake, however, the U.S. ordered that nonessential embassy personnel and dependents be evacuated from eleven Muslim countries, which have become jittery because of the Ayatullah's calls to action and because of the approach of the aircraft carriers Kitty Hawk and Midway to the Persian Gulf...
...Frank Tivan, associate director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council, cited offshore operations in the North Sea, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico as proof that drilling does not damage the ocean environment. "The catch of fish in the North Sea has increased four times. Rigs didn't impede the fishing industry," Tivan said...
...maintenance of the Shah's regime. American advisors supported Savak, the dreaded secret police responsible for the torture and brutal deaths of untold numbers of Iranian citizens. The army was transformed into a brutal instrument of internal repression and a guardian of foreign interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. What was called "economic development" in Iran during those 25 years was in reality the development of consumerism, quick profits for American and European companies, and the further exploitation and impoverishment of the bulk of the population...
...might even decide that it was wiser to keep oil in the ground instead of pumping up so much of it in exchange for mere paper. At the moment that Banisadr was posturing, U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was jetting to Saudi Arabia, to try to persuade Persian Gulf leaders not to cut their oil production in the months ahead. He also wanted to assure them that, although the Carter Administration had seized some $8 billion to $9 billion in official Iranian assets, their money was safe in U.S. banks...