Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life in exile, since he fled Iran last January, has been considerably less grand but still rather more than comfortable. In Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he lived for almost five months before coming to the U.S. for medical treatment, he occupied a rented four-building compound with spacious gardens set inside a twelve-foot wall. He can afford a personal security force and a staff of servants-and he pays the $975-a-day bill for his New York hospital suite promptly. But the Shah last week whiled away much of his time in the unregal pastime that many hospital patients...
...Well, we're not talking to each other because every door that we opened was shut by the U.S. We have set forth procedures of how the Shah should be returned to Iran. And when we make our proposals, the next thing we hear is a decision, "We aren't going to buy your oil." The next thing, "We are going to freeze Iranian assets...
...telegram from the Secretary-General asking us to participate -please come in 24 hours, and the U.S. has agreed on it. Well, that was for us rather a surprise. We believe that the decision to go ahead with a Security Council debate now means that the Americans have set...
...have set forth certain conditions which we believe are extremely reasonable. We think that the U.S. should agree that this guy [the Shah] should be tried as a criminal. And accept an international team of our choice to interrogate the Shah and investigate the case. And thirdly the wealth of the Shah and his family, which has been taken from Iran and invested in the U.S.. be returned to our people...
...fourth day. Saudi troops finally gained a toehold within the mosque. Several minarets were set afire in the battle...