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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is the address of the U.S. embassy, which has been in the hands of fanatical followers of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini ever since Nov. 4. No one knows for sure where the idea of sending Christmas messages to the hostages originated, but it caught on with amazing speed. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

In their own defense, officials in Tokyo insisted that Japan, like the U.S., was a victim of Iranian blackmail. Unless the oil was bought, they claimed, Tehran threatened to suspend negotiations on Japan's 1980 allotment of Iranian oil, which this year amounted to 11 % of Japanese consumption. Moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Iran is beginning to find some ways around the economic measures taken against it by the U.S. The biggest difficulty has been surmounting the international banking tangle caused by Carter's order last month freezing more than $8 billion in Iranian assets held by U.S. banks. Because of it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Quite the contrary, say skeptical U.S. Government economists and Western experts in Tehran. Iran has found more than enough alternative sources of food; for example, the Australian government supports the U.S. on the hostages but has continued its exports of meat and wheat to Iran, which this year will total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The Administration is particularly peeved about the help that the Japanese have been giving Iran. In Paris, Vance provided an earful of complaints to Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita, who was in the city for a meeting of the International Energy Agency. A U.S. official charged that Tokyo has allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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