Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed to discourage Teng from his desire to visit Nixon at San Clemente. A quarrel also developed in the White House over whether to invite Ted Kennedy. Though the Senator had long been an advocate of normalization of relations with China, some of Carter's advisers were loath to let their chief share the glory with a potential rival for the presidency. They were decisively overridden by Vance, who insisted that Kennedy be seated among the 130 invited guests, who included Mondale, Kissinger, congressional leaders, Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank, Writer Theodore White, United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser...
Audacity was clearly needed to defuse the tension between Bakhtiar and his opponents. Khomeini was originally scheduled to fly to Tehran last Friday, the Muslim day of prayer; 48 hours before Khomeini's departure, Bakhtiar's nervous government reversed its earlier decision to let him return. Soldiers moved into Tehran's Mehrabad Airport during the night and unplugged electric and fuel lines of Boeing 707 and 747 aircraft belonging to Iran Air, the country's commercial line. One of the 747s was to have been flown to Paris by striking pilots and crew to pick...
...misguided loyalty, he now senses, they shielded him from reality. "My advisers built a wall between myself and my people," the Shah bitterly told Sadat at Aswan. "I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. Don't let that happen...
Washington brows are beginning to furrow at the prospect that the U.S. might wind up with not even enough oil for itself, let alone anyone else. The nation depends on Iran for only about 5% of its petroleum needs, but other countries are nowhere near so lucky. Worldwide, Iran normally supplies about 20% of the total petroleum imports of all the consuming nations. Japan usually relies on Iran for 15% of its needs, and Western Europe generally is heavily dependent on Iranian oil, as is Israel, whose oil needs the U.S. has pledged to fulfill in the event of shortages...
...Let's not deny it when...