Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Revolution in Iran. A souring of the important U.S. special relationship with Saudi Arabia. A looming economic crisis, and soon, caused by oil shortages and runaway price boosts. A danger that much of the region might change its tilt away from the U.S. and toward the Soviet Union. A Middle East peace seemingly more elusive than ever. These are the troubles and threats that America faces in the so-called crescent of crisis-that great swath of countries running from the Horn of Africa through Egypt and across the Middle East to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, more than...
...press conference last week, President Carter declared how important it was that the nations of this area "know that we have a real interest, a real national interest, in the stability and peace of that region, and particularly for the supply of oil, the routes through which the oil is delivered to ourselves and to our friends and allies throughout the world...
...wake of the revolution in Iran, critics of the Administration, and some of its friends, have charged that the U.S. is not doing enough to convince the nations of the crescent that it does have "a real national interest in the stability and peace of that region." Republican National Committee Chairman Bill Brock, reflecting a frustration that was not entirely partisan, said last week that foreign policy, especially the events in Iran, would be a key issue in the presidential campaign...
...Eastern Shore Education Fund will permit eighth through 11th grade students from Maryland's Eastern Shore region to attend summer sessions at a prep school or to enroll in fine arts programs at various institutions...
...Eastern Shore region is a poor, rural area where most scholarship programs are unheard of," Cephas, a native of the area, said yesterday. "There is a tremendous untapped human resource down there, which is why I am convinced it will work," he added...