Word: soviet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet Union...
American ineptness, the Shah also complains, applies not only to Iran but to the entire Middle East. In one conversation with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Aswan, the Shah spread out a series of maps to prove that "the Americans do not grasp the dimension of Soviet moves throughout the area." Later, addressing a joint session of the Egyptian and Sudanese parliaments in Khartoum, Sadat inserted a sword-rattling reference to Soviet "conspiracies in the dark" around the Horn of Africa. Aides said that Sadat had been prompted by the Shah's remarks...
Oddly, the country that may have most to gain from Iran's political crisis has been the first to be hurt by its oilfield chaos. For weeks hundreds of thousands of Armenians, Georgians and Azerbaijanis in the mountainous country north of Iran's border with the Soviet Union have been shivering through an experience reminiscent of the American Midwest in recent winters: icy temperatures and no natural...
...unavailable because the 746-mile pipeline that carries it from Iran's Ahwaz field to Soviet ports on the Caspian Sea has been out of service since the field was shut down by Iranian strikers last autumn. The Soviets, who built the line in 1970, pay Iran more than $250 million annually for some 10 billion cubic meters of gas, which they distribute through branch lines to the whole of the Transcaucasus. Like their American counterparts, Soviet officials seemed at first to assume that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange...
Meanwhile, Soviet newspapers and radio broadcasts are filled with familiar-sounding exhortations: insulate doors and windows, keep down temperatures in apartments, try not to use scarce gas for cooking and hot-water bathing. As if surprised, the Armenian party paper Kommunist declared: "A fuel crisis is a serious, disastrous occurrence, even on the scale of a single region," Welcome to the 1970s...