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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 $140 million. Similarly, Iran is importing eggs from Turkey, poultry from Rumania and rice from Thailand. Tehran is making up for the cutoff of U.S. medicines by buying some 600 pharmaceutical items from Japan, ranging from aspirin to antibiotics. It is importing U.S.-manufactured oil-drilling equipment from Rumania and could obtain spare automobile parts from a General Motors...

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

Convulsive postwar events like those in Greece, Turkey, Berlin, Lebanon and the Suez that confronted Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower led to swift responses that added up to a sense of American resolve. John Kennedy had some of that in his first year. Viet Nam was different, and the old strategy of trying to get in and out quickly failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Gulliver Is Up and Around | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...officials fleeing with the admonition: "You return, you die!" The rebels were joined by local units of the Iranian army and air force and the police, in both Tabriz and the nearby towns in the rugged mountains of the western part of Iran, near the borders of Turkey and Iraq. From Qum, Sharietmadari appealed to his supporters to remain peaceful. He pointedly did not criticize their revolt, but he did rule out secession. Said he: "We want to establish the framework for giving full liberty [meaning self-rule] to Azerbaijan, but it is part of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Hostages in Danger | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

With the standard North American Christmas dinner about as predictable as a Norman Rockwell rendering, the time has come to borrow from other countries their versions of foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feasts for Holiday and Every Day | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

There is a recipe for the braised turkey à la Normande that was carved "with sacerdotal majesty" at the Rivebelle restaurant. At the meal Mme. Swann called "le lunch," there would be creamed eggs en cocotte-and Dining shows the way to prepare them. In Jean Santeuil, Proust wrote of the lobster set before Mlle. de Réveillon, reason enough to provide the formula for homard à l'Américaine. Albertine pleads for skate with black butter; King delivers it. Marcel wrote affectionately of éclairs, marrons glacés, strawberry juice, orangeade, chocolate cake, oysters, petite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feasts for Holiday and Every Day | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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