Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal arranged by E.R.A.P. Chief Pierre Guillaumat, 57, a longtime De Gaulle lieutenant, E.R.A.P. will search for new oil reserves over 85,000 sq. mi. of Iranian desert and offshore tracts in the Persian Gulf. The French twist is that E.R.A.P. will operate as a contractor to Iran rather than a concession-holding partner. Instead of splitting earnings with the host country on a 25-75 basis, as most major international oil companies do, France will turn over half the oil reserves it finds to Iran, in return for rights to pump out as much as 45% of the rest...
...E.R.A.P.'s exploratory territory shrinks from 85,000 to 12,000 sq. mi. after the first year, and still more after that; search rights may be stopped altogether after six years. Given past experience, the prospects for finding oil are uncertain indeed. Last year the French plumbed one Iranian concession for months, came up with only dry holes and a $27 million loss...
Minorities continued to be an issue of some embarrassment as the Iranian representative at the seminar, after alluding to the magnificent manner in "which Persia had treated her minorities for centuries was asked about the treatment the Bahai's had recently received. The explanation was that this was a political question which did not indicate that Iran had difficulty integrating its minorities...
...blue jeans under the flowing robes of Oxford students, in the garish neon signs in Bangkok, even in the Russian youths who exchange jazz tapes in Moscow cafeterias. It is responsible for the aching shoulders of bowling-alley patrons on six continents, for the new tendency of Iranian pilots to name their children Mark or David or Joe instead of Reza or Parviz or Taghi, for the popularity of Velveeta cheese in Germany, Kellogg's cornflakes in England and the ubiquitous hotto doggu in Japan...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...