Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losers. We supported the Shah to the absolute last possible moment. The only thing we didn't do for him is send troops. Then when his people drove him from the country, we switched to another loser. Anyone could see that [Shahpour] Bakhtiar [whom the Shah named Prime Minister before he left Iran] was a loser. For a little more than a month, Bakhtiar played the game of losing, with us patting him on the back and providing him with support. Bakhtiar predictably is gone down the pipe also." Bill felt that the U.S. had thereby lost-though...
...retired, who was long a leading State Department Arabist and oil-policy expert. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1973 until late 1975, but was dismissed following policy disputes with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Akins felt Saudi Arabia, not Iran, should have been the prime focus of U.S. interests in the region...
Crediting the Carter administration with "doing its best" to bring about a peaceful settlement in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Chinamano--whose trip to the U.S. is sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations--charged the U.S. with failing to convince Prime Minister Ian Smith of the "realities of the situation...
...visible muscles, anyway? Would the real Sherlock Holmes burst into tears at the sight of a beautiful, helpless woman unjustly committed to an insane asylum? Would the real Holmes leap at the throat of an official in an attempt to kill him? Would he sweat in front of the Prime Minister? Now really, would...
...against any misunderstanding in this film, Clark brings in some Famous People in Bit Parts to match his stereotyped characters with stereotyped actors. Donald Sutherland plays the weird guy; Genevieve Bujold, the beautiful child-woman-victim; David Hemmings, the man who is not quite what he seems; and the Prime Minister, is of course, John Gielgud...