Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing flood of seaborne refugees trying to escape from Viet Nam. A few weeks ago, one group was attacked seven times by pirates, who took even food and water before the Vietnamese landed in Thailand. Several other boatloads were so desperate for safety that they forcibly boarded an oil-rig tugboat about 170 miles east of Malaysia. Still another 42 Vietnamese scuttled their craft just off the Malaysian shore, swimming the remaining distance so that authorities could not tow them back...
...oil was beginning to flow at a near normal rate from Iranian wells and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi seemed to be holding fast, Washington policymakers and analysts were heatedly examining why the Carter Administration had been caught by surprise when violent riots swept Iran. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports...
Despite sporadic clashes between protesters and police, Iran showed few signs last week of the turmoil that has engulfed it for the past two months. Oil production was almost back to normal, following a three-week walkout by workers at the country's refineries and rigs. A wildcat strike by power workers caused blackouts in the capital of Tehran, but after soldiers took over the power stations the workers returned to their jobs...
...Tehran, U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan had suppressed pessimistic, and prophetic, cables from underlings. Others blamed Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose theory it is that the U.S. must bolster "regional influentials" like Iran. That theory, said the critics, was based on the false assumption that military might plus oil wealth equals political stability and failed to take account of the corruption, mismanagement and religious opposition that undercut the Shah's influence over his own people...
...South Africa. For us to have accepted money for those ads would have given us, in effect, clients who would use our services to help continue a monstrous system of repression and exploitation. For much the same reason, three years ago we refused advertisements from the Arabian-American Oil Company, a firm that would not hire people who happened to be black, Jewish or female for the job openings it was advertising. Again, we continued our policy of refusing to be a party to an obvious injustice...