Word: liss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given such a staggering array of imponderables, what policies should the U.S. follow in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the surrounding area? In an interview with TIME Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, the director of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies (liss), Christoph Bertram, argues that once the American hostages have been released, the U.S. should ignore Iran, isolate it, and try to curtail its influence on the Gulf states. Many of America's allies agree. British diplomats, for instance, are convinced that the Iranian Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic Republic in its present form will not outlive...
...Saudi Arabia, the liss's Bertram believes that Washington would do well to try to dilute a historic one-to-one relationship with Riyadh by bringing some of its closest allies into the partnership. Otherwise, says Bertram, "the danger is that the U.S. will be drawn into the country's potential internal conflicts, and that governments in the Gulf, in order to reduce internal tensions of their own, would try to dissociate themselves from the U.S." In his view, the establishment of permanent U.S. bases in the Gulf would be unwise because it would place additional internal political...
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...Liss Jeffries '73, an organizer of the meeting, said that suggestions offered at last night's gathering will be incorporated into the final draft of the Class Day oration...