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Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's purpose in publishing these disastrous totals was to hint at his desire to settle with the British and restart the oil industry, "the main source of income in the Iranian nation." In explosively chauvinistic Iran, such ideas have to be gingerly phrased: "It is impossible to carry on national reforms without a solution of the oil problem . . . This government hopes to take efficient steps toward exploiting this resource...
...head and neck, and exert pressure with his right leg and foot. So the bottom of the rocking bed has a button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...
...loss of Roll, while severe in itself, was not the hardest blow to the Crimson, Polhemus, rowing in his place, turned a creditable performance. It was, however, the disruption of the crew of eight that had worked together since restart of the season and had perfected smooth style, that emphasized Roll's absence...
Last week had shown, perhaps more forcibly than the earlier weeks of the Red offensive's swift movement, the seeming futility of the German position. The Russians had paused to regroup and restart. They were in vulnerable positions, but there had been no German counterattacks worthy of the name. The week had made it clear that Zhukov could call his shots on any front in his own good time...
...until they received further orders from Tokyo. Japanese papers fed the public with whoppers about how "our soldiers have been generously feeding the starving Soviet troops," charged that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been in radio communication with Soviet Far Eastern Army Marshal Vasily Bluecher, begging him to restart the Russo-Japanese war as the only means of diverting the Japanese from capturing Hankow...