Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter also had a new sense that the diplomatic pressure on Tehran was beginning to pay off. To tighten the screws on Iran, the State Department ordered all but 35 of the 218 Iranian diplomats accredited to the U.S. to leave the country in less than a week. This will reduce Iran's embassy in Washington and its consulates in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Houston to skeleton staffs...
...OPEC members and the shippers' decision to fill domestic American orders first. Still, some skeptical U.S. officials noted that Japan's storage tanks are brimming with a 100-day supply of oil-Tokyo's insurance policy against an unforeseen crisis in the Middle East. At week's end Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira told subordinates that he was "gravely concerned" about upsetting relations with the U.S., which imports $26 billion worth of Japanese goods a year. He ordered the trading companies not to import more oil from Iran in the future than they did before the crisis...
...world is willing to extend credit to Iran. Most banks are also unwilling to handle Iran's international transactions, with the important exception of the Swiss and Japanese. They have made it possible for Iran to keep making oil sales, which amount to about $1 billion a week...
Meanwhile, the Shah's sudden departure from Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio raised hopes that the hostage situation might now be resolved. Earlier in the week, that seemed a remote possibility. The Shah's health had taken a turn for the worse. Aides reported to Washington that he had been sick to his stomach and was running a fever. At Carter's request, Drs. Benjamin Kean and Hibbard Williams, who had treated the Shah in New York City, flew to Lackland to examine him. They prescribed undisclosed therapy for his enlarged spleen but concluded there...
...tensions in Azerbaijan can only further stir Iran's other jostling eth nic minorities-the Kurds in adjoining Kurdistan, the Arabs near the Persian Gulf, the Baluchis and the Turkomans to the east. Last week there even came a brief incursion by the Iraqis across their disputed frontier. The Kurds are most likely to cause trouble next. These flinty, well-armed peasants, isolated in their mountain hideaways, have in the past fought more fiercely for independence than Iran's other dissident minorities, and a cease-fire agreement that they signed last month with the Khomeini government just expired...