Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to track down the rumors about Soviet agents operating in the southeast began in Chah Bahar, an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman commanding the approaches to the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The mysterious new tower that had been spotted near the town turned out to be no Soviet listening post. What had been mistaken for a spy installation was, in fact, a powerful 1,200-kilo-watt radio transmitter set up by the Iranian government to foment Islamic revolution abroad. Broadcasting in a dozen languages, the transmitter has been beaming subversive broadcasts to the Indian subcontinent...
...Chomsky fails to convince. His essays are brilliantly written and impressively researched: 370 pages of text and 104 pages of footnotes. The insights into American action in Southeast Asia hold water, as does his contention that the United States is repeating its disastrous mistakes of a decade ago in Latin America today. yet you've got to wonder if the United States is really the belligerent and oppressive state that Chomsky would have us believe...
...years, the tin market was a model of orderliness. Three countries in Southeast Asia-Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand-account for two-thirds of the world's tin production. Since 1956, they and other producers have had a series of five-year agreements with consuming nations to prevent price fluctuations and stabilize supplies. Last July, however, the consensus fell apart. The Reagan Administration, which does not like deals that distort free markets, declined to sign a new five-year contract...
...Geneva Conference." (In fact, Ho frequently and vocally sought to participate in the aborted election.) And, said the President, it was former President John F. Kennedy '40 who first sent U.S. marines to Vietnam. (Actually, Lyndon B. Johnson was the first President to dispatch marines to Southeast Asia...
...Polish debt and of financing a war in Afghanistan. Lately, the U.S.S.R. has been selling gold to make up for a currency shortage caused by a serious shortfall in last year's grain harvest. As a result, Moscow has been cutting back on its aid to all of Southeast Asia. The Soviets were forced to reduce their 1981 grain shipments to Kampuchea by almost half, from a promised 100,000 tons to only 55,000. The price Viet Nam pays br Soviet petroleum rose from $4 to $16 per bbl. in 1981. This year, oil-import subsidies for Laos...