Word: said
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadegh announced that the magazine's bureau would be closed indefinitely. Under questioning by a reporter for a Persian-language newspaper, he also said that Van Voorst had worked in the past for the CIA. Van Voorst was in fact a research assistant for the CIA in the mid-1950s but severed all connections with the agency after he became a journalist and made no effort to keep his former CIA affiliation a secret...
...Washington, the Carter Administration seemed to despair of reconciling the conflicting messages from Tehran about the hostages. Said State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III: "There are signs that come and signs that go. Interpretation of them is subject to change almost on an hourly basis...
...house itself is a modest dwelling, consisting of only six rooms. But for the latest occupant of the building, owned by former Panamanian Ambassador to the U.S. Gabriel Lewis Galindo, it is a much needed haven. "Such surroundings, such hospitality, are not going to be easy to match," said Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi last week about his new sanctuary. "I feel like home...
After four days of dispute, the meeting in Caracas broke up with hard-line hawks such as Iran, Libya, Nigeria and Algeria planning to charge a minimum of $28.50 per bbl. and perhaps $30 or even more, while other cartel members said that they intended to go no higher than $24. All in all, the rises add up to a big increase over the OPEC official maximum of $23.50 that had prevailed since summer, the $18 that Saudi Arabia, the cartel's leading producer, had posted until two weeks ago, and the $12.90 that OPEC averaged a year...
...projected increases are expected to raise the nation's oil import bill from about $62 billion this year to more than $83 billion, representing a rise in fuel costs of $80 for every American citizen. The increase, said Energy Secretary Charles Duncan, could add from 4? to 8? to the retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the coming weeks, and 3? to 7? to the cost of home heating oil, a major expense for consumers in the import-dependent Northeast. Several of the largest oil companies, including Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and Texaco, last week announced wholesale gasoline...