Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steps to help Marcos out of a gathering financial crisis, which last week led to a 21.4% devaluation of the peso. From a former U.S. Ambassador to both Iran and the Philippines, meanwhile, came a blunt warning that the struggle to replace Marcos could become a replay of the Iranian revolution...
...from France 20 Exocet air-to-surface missiles, the same weapon that the Argentines used to such deadly effect against the British in the Falklands war last year. Once the Super Etendards are equipped with the Exocets, the Iraqis would have a weapons system capable of hitting and blocking Iranian oil facilities that still ship an estimated 2.2 million bbl. per day of crude...
...Iranian government has warned that if its oil installations are threatened in any way, it will shut down ship traffic in the gulf by bottling up the entrance at the Strait of Hormuz. Such a move would seriously disrupt the lifeline of gulf oil, most notably from Saudi Arabia, to the rest of the world. About 50% of Japan's oil imports, nearly 40% of Western Europe's and 10% of the U.S.'s come from the region...
...going well. A similar sounding, which asks voters for their assessment of the "state of the nation," shows that the percentage of those responding "good" stayed near the 42% level reached in June, an increase from 27% last December and 11% in March 1980, during the depths of the Iranian hostage crisis...
...information and keep it from ordinary people," says Oswald Ganley, information-resources expert at Harvard. Generally speaking, he suggests, the more people talk the less they fight. At the same time, we have to be careful. There are opportunities for misunderstanding if the communication gets careless, as in the Iranian hostage crisis, which Ganley believes was prolonged by excessive rhetoric...