Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President got another boost when the House refused to approve a Republican-sponsored measure to take away Carter's authority to impose import fees on foreign crude oil. For a wobbly moment, the Administration's winning streak in the House was endangered by the threatened gutting of a bill that would require court approval of any wiretapping done for national security reasons. Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell argued that the measure was necessary to clear up ambiguities in the present law and protect civil rights. The House began rewriting the bill to give the President a free...
What the protesters do have in common is bitter frustration over the failure of many of the Shah's economic programs, the rising inflation brought on by oil wealth, the denial of political rights, and years of repressive and insensitive rule. Says a West German foreign-office expert: "For too long, the Shah paid insufficient attention to political pressure groups from right and left, dismissed them as rabble-rousers, and was convinced that his lifting Iran economically at a rapid pace would satisfy most of his people. He also thought that he could keep things under control by the traditional...
...Moscow is also the enemy, and in recognition of this and his pivotal role as the guardian of the Persian Gulf oil lanes, the Shah has become commander in chief of one of the mightiest military machines in the Middle East. In 20 years, he has bought $36 billion in arms?half from the U.S. He has submarines from West Germany, tanks from Britain, frigates from Holland. His air force flies 141 F-4Es, 64 F-14As, 20 F-14s; and 180 more jets are on order. He has spent $500 million on 491 Bell helicopters, and will...
...left the Shah open to charges that some of that money - which has helped him hold the allegiance of the military - should have been spent to improve civilian living conditions. Though a booming city, Tehran suffers a severe water shortage. Housing costs have shot up. The drop in oil income in the past three years (because of the fall of the dollar), though only 3%, found Iran financially overextended. As a result, many development projects simply came to a halt. Inflation leaped to 50% a year, profiteering became widespread, and the confluence of troubles served to highlight some...
...because of Iran's pro-Western stance, its location on the Soviet border, its relations with its important but far less stable neighbors, and its moderating role in the Middle East. The Shah is, in short, a bulwark of anti-Communism at the confluence of the Persian Gulf oil routes (see following story...