Word: shah
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...same grandiose economic plans and spending that tore apart Iranian society and drove the Shah from power now threaten other conservative societies in the Persian Gulf. These oil-producing states have spent most of their revenues on the ambitious development of petrochemical and other heavy, "prestige" industries, to the neglect of traditional economic activities, like fishing, agriculture and cattle-raising, which would distribute oil wealth more widely. As an article in The New York Times recently noted, "with that neglect came the disruption of the lifestyle of large segments of the population, particularly of the Bedouins, who are the backbone...
Christopher Lydon, a newscaster for WGBH-TV, proposed the conference's most startling theory when he said that President Carter knew that militants would occupy the American embassy in Tehran if he admitted the deposed Shah to the United States for medical treatment. Lydon said Carter may have planned beforehand to use the hostage issue as a means of toughening his image for the re-election campaign...
...bases." But how willing are the countries involved to have the U.S. intervene to protect those interests? A quarter of a century ago, the U.S. tried to answer that by helping to organize a Southwest Asian defensive alliance that included Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, but the fall of the Shah last year brought the end of that alliance...
...statement had its origins in a policy memorandum that Brzezinski sent Carter in February 1979, after the Shah's fall. Brzezinski proposed that the U.S. form a protective umbrella over North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. It would include signed understandings with several governments in the area?at the very least with Egypt, Jordan and Israel?and an American military shield that would stretch as far west as Morocco. If Carter is still thinking along those lines, the shield now has been extended as far east as Pakistan...
Once is trouble, Kennedy tried to push the gas to the floor instead of riding it out. The Massachusetts senator's renunciation of the Shah did not go over too well. Farmington is aggressively patriotic. Bernie, at least 300 pounds of American, announces himself ready to go to war, perhaps in the paratroops. A bar patron, deep in his cups, looks up simply to say "Protests...