Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once a strident hardliner, Iraq tried to be a middleman in the power struggle between extremists and self-professed moderates. Its oil minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim, suggested that a relatively modest floor price be established, but that it increase automatically every three months in line with world inflation and the economic growth of Western nations, a proposal that won only limited support...
...their middleman role, Aramco's American chiefs plainly have divided loyalties. From Chairman John J. Kelberer, a career-long Aramco engineering manager, on down, executives remain determined to do nothing that would anger their Saudi hosts or jeopardize the company's concession. During the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Aramco's executives not only did as they were told by the Saudi government, but cut back production by more than requested just to show that they were good Saudi corporate citizens...
...poultry from Rumania are flowing into Iran. The country has also been going to Thailand for about 15% of its imported rice, and the Thais have plenty more where that came from. Were the U.S. to embargo shipments to Iran, food produced elsewhere would simply move from one international middleman to another and end up in the bazaars of Tehran...
Louis is no stranger to controversy. He once was arrested by Stalin's police, and Salisbury repeats the report that Louis operated a store inside a concentration camp. He emerged during the Khrushchev era as not only a journalist but a very well connected middleman. His entrepreneurial activities have included attempting to stage a pirated Soviet production of the musical My Fair Lady in 1959, trying to sell Western publishers an unauthorized version of the memoirs of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, and possibly helping to spirit out of Russia the tapes and manuscripts for Khrushchev Remembers. Louis...
...daily transformation. Pale hands splay rainbows of gems across velvet cloths in store windows, magically making each an entrance to Ali Baba's cave. This is West 47th Street, a tiny world of its own that handles about half of the diamonds entering the U.S. Here brokers play middleman between American buyers and the supplying De Beers syndicate in London, and the deals amount to more than $2.5 billion worth of rare gems a year...