Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Embattled diplomats and fleeing rulers of the past...
...past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty. In 1968 Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was shot during a kidnaping attempt. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. was murdered in 1973, when members of the Palestinian Black September group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack...
...Iranian mess are almost certain to put alarming new stresses on both the U.S. economy and the world financial system. Asserts Economist Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources Inc.: "The direct impact of the U.S.'s actions is obviously small. But the unfortunate experience of the past few years has been that every political problem involving an energy-producing nation ultimately converts itself into a further upset in the oil market and a further upset in prices...
...exports of all kinds to Iran have fallen dramatically: from $3.7 billion in 1978 to under $1 billion this year. Iran gets about 25% of its food imports from the U.S., having bought 816,000 metric tons of American wheat in the past fiscal year. In September the Khomeini government signed a contract to double wheat purchases from Australia, to 520,000 metric tons over the next six months. The price is about $20 higher than America's $185 a ton. Meat from Australia and New Zealand, eggs from Turkey and poultry from Rumania are flowing into Iran...
...siege-and, perhaps more important, the symbolism of its aftermath. There is great danger that the spectacle of youthful radicals, backed by an aged and atavistic theocrat, humiliating and terrorizing American diplomatic personnel will have become a symbol of U.S. weakness. On the battlefield of domestic politics, the past two weeks offer Jimmy Carter's bi-partisan legion of opponents an almost irresistible target for sniping. All a skillful stump speaker has to do is lament "the decline of American power and prestige," and his listeners will grit their teeth at the memory of Uncle Sam, a goat...