Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposedly alienated from the U.S. They were convinced that the currents of change were running more swiftly than the Administration believed, and they were afraid, some more than others, that the U.S. was failing to act with enough power, or sophistication, or both, to bolster its interests in the region. Complained Richard Helms, the former CIA director and Ambassador to Iran: "My impression of the Administration is that it is 'big talk, little...
...other hand, there was a conviction that the U.S. was far from powerless; the country was amply strong enough to act, but what should the acting be? The group agreed that the Administration should move more firmly to exercise its leadership in the region-to create "options of power," in American University President Joseph Sisco's phrase-but there was disagreement about which options should be developed and how they might be used. The U.S. can no longer send in the Marines with impunity. Always in the background was the hard reality that the U.S. has long since lost...
...present Turkish government afloat, to provide it $2 billion a year for the next five years to prevent a collapse." The aid should come, Tahtinen felt, not only from the U.S. but from other NATO countries and possibly Saudi Arabia, "which has an interest in stability in the region...
...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...
...some 20,000 Chinese troops poured out of the Himalayas overlooking India's North East Frontier Agency (NEFA). Other Chinese forces marched through the rocky wastes of the Ladakh region of Kashmir, about 1,000 miles to the west. Outgunned and outmanned by the invaders, the ill-equipped Indian army fell back. After a month of smashing Chinese victories, much of northern India lay open to conquest. But suddenly the invaders stopped dead in their tracks. Radio Peking announced that "on its own initiative" China was declaring a ceasefire. Chinese troops pulled back from the front, in some cases...