Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt that the Pentagon saw advantages in acceding to the Saudi request. Saudi Arabia is a thinly populated, poorly defended country whose vital oilfields are vulnerable to attack. Ground radar, for example, would give the Saudis only two to four minutes' warning of an assault by Iranian planes flying in low over the gulf. Points out a Pentagon official: "You have to consider the possibility of irrational acts by Iran, and that means anything is possible." The availability of AWACS would extend the warning time to 15 minutes, enough to enable Saudi interceptors to swing into action. U.S. planners...
...needed reaffirmation of U.S. technological prowess. It came at a moment when many Americans, and much of the world as well, were questioning that very capability. The doubts grew out of a succession of U.S. setbacks: from the defeat in Viet Nam to the downed rescue helicopters in the Iranian desert, from the debacle of Three Mile Island to Detroit's apparent defenselessness against the onslaught of Japanese cars. The flaming power of Columbia's rockets seemed to lift Americans out of their collective sense of futility and gloom. At last they had a few things to cheer...
Whether the Saudis maintain current production or not, oil-consuming nations can hardly rest easy. Temporary surpluses in 1978 and 1980 quickly evaporated after the outbreak of the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. A pickup of the U.S. and European economies and the resulting increased demand for oil would wipe out the mini-glut just as quickly this time. Says Ulf Lantzke, director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency: "We are in balance at the moment, but it is a rather fragile balance." With some 60% of world oil reserves buried under the sands of the always...
...Wall Cinema have enabled the film to make its world premiere here in Boston. Of course, in deference to the PBS network one might point to the very real possibility that many zealous Americans might have been outraged by a program that concerned itself with the plight of one Iranian much to the exclusion of the American hostages, but the film's singular focus, its preoccupation with the trials of Kazem Ala, is its very strength. Unwilling to provide a simple reiteration of the revolution and the seizure of the American embassy, the directors instead trace further back in time...
...using their camera carefully and unobtrusively, often relying on glaring juxtapositions. Whenever Kazem's wife appears in a scene, as she does for instance, in a sequence where Kazem sits on the beach and points to his scarred feet and ankles, the camera constantly shifts, focusing first on the Iranian's dark, weathered face and then on her plum, ivory face. The contrast is sharp and suggestive: for while Kazem describes, with grim experience painted on his face, the tortures he underwent, his wife looks on innocently, almost uncomprehendingly. In only a few frames, she becomes the personification of America...