Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bazargan agreed that the military planes could land at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport in an emergency. The Prime Minister said he was sorry the Americans had decided to leave, and his Foreign Minister, Karim Sanjabi, said he hoped they would be able to return soon. Given the range of uncertainties in Iran today, the U.S. obviously felt it should take the more prudent course...
...stress and adroit at coping with diplomatic delicacies. "I think he's got water for blood," says Eugene Lawson, a former State Department colleague who is now a director at Georgetown University's foreign service school. "He's a collected, shrewd guy who always seems to land on his feet...
...19th century politics appears to have suffered a severe relapse. Last week, a high Israeli official warned that "Turkey will fall as Iran did." Though less pessimistically, a State Department official in Washington agreed that it would be tragic for NATO if it were to lose its second biggest land army and its network of intelligence listening posts next to the Soviet Union. There are some ominous similarities between the situation in Turkey and the roots of the trouble in Iran, but, concludes TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn after a ten-day tour of Turkey, there are important differences...
Already, Friendship Pass, across which Mao fed Ho Chi Minn's war against South Viet Nam and the U.S., has been stitched closed by the Chinese with barbed wire. Other routes are seeded with land mines or pocked with foxholes. A day seldom passes without Peking and Hanoi each blaming the other for a new string of incidents...
...N.F.L. picked the very best players in the land and sequestered them for training in Palm Beach. Coach Tom Landry, chosen by the National Security Council, was so up for the game that he bought himself another of those little fedoras that make him look like a homicide detective, wise and tough. "The Soviets aren't ten feet tall," he said...