Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uninjured, it is still possible that the U.S. and Iran could restore limited relations. The present Iranian government wants to sell the 77 U.S.-built F-14 jet fighters that the Shah bought for his air force. Contractual restrictions would prevent Iran from selling the planes to the Soviet Union, but it is likely that Iran could find a customer acceptable to the U.S. One possibility: Saudi Arabia. The sale of military spare parts could begin again. The U.S. still sells wheat and rice to Iran, and in time the sale of Iranian oil to the U.S. might be also...
...troops captured the city and freed the thousands held hostage. That hostility to foreigners was echoed during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, when Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards burned the British mission, beat up British and Indian diplomats and attacked the fleeing families of Soviet diplomats as they boarded their plane. Mao tacitly approved the assaults. Indonesian officials also applauded the mobs that ransacked the British embassy in Djakarta...
...event, economic sanctions have a dismal record of failure. The long U.S. trade embargo against Cuba has hurt the island economy, but Castro has managed to acquire most basics from the Soviet Union and other suppliers. In the mid-1960s, certain Latin American governments turned to Europe for the military weapons the Americans refused to sell them. There is very little that the U.S. sells to Iran that other countries could not supply...
...adversaries, particularly the Soviet Union, the events in Iran come as almost unmitigated good news, at least in the short run. The Kremlin is eager for the world, particularly the Third World, to believe that America is on the defensive, if not on the retreat. At the same time, the Soviet leadership is anxious to avoid the impression that the U.S.S.R. is leading the charge. That would violate the 1972 code of détente, which enjoins the superpowers from "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage," and it would jeopardize SALT II as well. Therefore, the Soviets prefer that...
Since his increasing respectability as a Washington columnist, people have proclaimed the existence of a new Safire, but the old Nixonian Safire keeps popping up: there he was, calling Carter "the best U.S. President the Soviet Union ever...