Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plea for U.S. Support. First on the agenda was a special message from Jordan's King Hussein and Kuwait's Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed es Sabah. The gist of their joint communication as delivered by the Shah: the U.S. must find some way of expressing concrete support for the Arab moderates, lest pressure from the left force them to look to Russia for future support and assistance. The most practical support, suggested the Shah, would be arms. Not only was the Shah concerned about Senators who want to limit or end U.S. arms...
...meetings with Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Senate For eign Relations Committee members, the Shah argued that Senators who try to limit or eliminate U.S. arms sales abroad "don't know what they are talking about." How many times, he asked, can the U.S. intervene all over the world to support friendly governments? "You can't," he answered. "And why should you?" Friendly governments, he said, should be helped to become strong enough to defend themselves. Any unilateral U.S. ban on arms sales, the Shah insisted, would only weaken U.S. influence among its friends and create...
...land. Some 7,000 rural cooperatives have been established and 800 extension corpsmen are helping farmers acquire new skills." It is no accident that Iran's economy is the strongest in the Middle East. And no one is prouder of his country's achievements than the Shah himself...
...State Noureddin Attassi on a return call. After receiving Aref in Amman, Jordan's King Hussein took off on a whirlwind visit to nine other Middle Eastern and Arab countries that would last ten days. Kuwait Prime Minister Jaber Al-Ahmed Es-Sabah dropped in on the Shah of Iran. Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito wound up a three day visit in Cairo, went on to Syria for a day, Iraq for two more days and then back to Egypt for more talks with Gamal Abdel Nasser. The mileage covered was impressive, but the cause of "peace...
...unrest shows no sign of abating. Last week 180 Free University students staged a 45-hour hunger strike and talkin at a West Berlin Protestant Student Center to demand the release of a jailed anti-Shah demonstrator. Whether they achieved their goal seemed almost beside the point; the act of protest itself was the crucial issue...