Word: interests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turbulence. He is currently trying to arrange an eight year loan of $88 million from a consortium of U.S. banks which would, in the words of one American banker, "give the country a breather." The Nicaraguan government has promised banks that it would catch up on its current interest payments by March 31, from sales of coffee, cotton, meat, and sugar in the early part of the year that provides the majority of the country's revenue. Meanwhile, there has been talk of possible Sandanista intervention to prevent a good harvest which would help to restabalize the economy...
...press conference last week, President Carter declared how important it was that the nations of this area "know that we have a real interest, a real national interest, in the stability and peace of that region, and particularly for the supply of oil, the routes through which the oil is delivered to ourselves and to our friends and allies throughout the world...
...foes of the President could not agree more. But in the wake of the revolution in Iran, critics of the Administration, and some of its friends, have charged that the U.S. is not doing enough to convince the nations of the crescent that it does have "a real national interest in the stability and peace of that region." Republican National Committee Chairman Bill Brock, reflecting a frustration that was not entirely partisan, said last week that foreign policy, especially the events in Iran, would be a key issue in the presidential campaign...
...station in 1974, and they are damned tired of appearing to be pushed around. I believe the American people have largely put Viet Nam behind them: they know what we are talking about when we speak of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula being a vital interest...
...find a way to keep the present Turkish government afloat, to provide it $2 billion a year for the next five years to prevent a collapse." The aid should come, Tahtinen felt, not only from the U.S. but from other NATO countries and possibly Saudi Arabia, "which has an interest in stability in the region...