Word: marred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operates Iran's own enormous oilfields refuses to bow to his demands to double production (now a record 130 million tons a year) in the next five years to finance his national-development program. The Shah is not at all impressed by consortium claims that the world oil mar ket is already glutted. Last month, when several of the consortium's member companies started drilling for offshore Saudi Arabian oil in the Persian Gulf, the Shah was so incensed that he dis patched patrol boats to stop the drilling and arrest the oilmen...
...turreted Foresta Hotel on a cliff overlooking Stockholm harbor. At a meeting of Common Market ministers in Brussels, France dropped a monkey wrench into the agenda by calling for a complete overhaul of today's monetary system and a return to the gold standard. The other five Common Mar ket countries rejected the idea on the ground that it was no time to debate the design of a new system when the old one verged on collapse. This was a sharp rebuff for the French, who have hoarded gold and warred against the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency...
Washington, D.C., Mar. 13 - Dean Rusk sang and danced on national TV for some seven hours today. Some of his most repeated routines were "The Common Danger to Us All," "The Yellow Peril Polka," "Halt Hanoi, Harry," and the old old standby of the Johnson Administration, "Lies, Lien, Lies...
DETROIT, Mich., Mar. 15--Two world indoor records and Jim Ryun's spectacular victory in the two-mile run highlighted the opening night of the NCAA indoor track championships here...
...London gold pool, stop selling gold to foreigners on demand, support the dollar by buying and selling foreign currencies as other countries do. (The Treasury promptly denied any such intention.) Then there were reports that South Africa, the leading gold producer, might switch from Britain to France to mar ket its metal. South African Finance Minister Nicolaas Diederichs scarcely quelled that worry when he commented last week: "A change isn't impossible...