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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, the government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, who is also the army chief of staff, was using tough methods to break a nationwide oil strike. In Ahwaz, workers were given their choice of going back to their jobs or being fired; by week's end most of the country's 37,000 oil and refinery employees were back at work, and production rose to roughly half the normal output of 6 million...
...another chapter of peace negotiations. The work we have done is not wasted." So said Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan last week, as he prepared for a weekend meeting in Brussels to explore ways of resuming the deadlocked talks on an Egyptian-Israeli pact. Both Egypt's Premier Moustafa Khalil and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who were to join Dayan in the Belgian capital, hoped that other long chapters of negotiations would not have to be written. But the possibility of an early resumption of serious bargaining was very uncertain, especially given the still high level...
...Vance had to extend his SALT talks with the Soviets in Geneva. In any case, the White House stressed that the Brussels discussions would deal only with "procedures" for restarting the talks. On that, at least, both Washington and Cairo agreed with Menachem Begin; in Jerusalem, the Israeli Premier bluntly told newsmen that Dayan would be limited to discussing only "how, when and where" negotiations might be resumed...
Begin also indicated that Israel was prepared to negotiate seriously on only one of the outstanding issues: Egypt's insistence that the security arrangements included in any treaty be reviewed after five years. The Premier was firmly backed by Israel's Knesset, which gave him a 66 to 6 vote of confidence on his tough stance toward Cairo and Washington. Said Opposition Leader Shimon Peres, usually a Begin critic: "Under pressure from the U.S., we will be united...
Nguyen Cao Ky, former Premier of South Viet Nam, who now owns a liquor store in Huntington Beach, Calif: "I am not Americanized yet. I do not wash dishes...