Word: weres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That drastic step hardly proved necessary. Sitting between a portrait of the Ayatullah Khomeini and an anti-Shah poster, Marine Corporal William Gallegos seemed fit and lucid. His remarks were excerpted on the evening news and aired in full during a half-hour special later that night. He said that...
Psychologists know that ex-hostages need that kind of reassurance, sometimes for months or even years after their release. Most hostages suffer some degree of psychological damage, a mix of helplessness, fear, rage and a sense of abandonment. During the Hanafi incident, says Siegel, "some of us felt we had...
It was a $6-per-bbl. Saudi shocker, and it could not have come at a more anxious moment. Four days before the 13 member nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were to sit down in Caracas for their fourth price-raising session in a year, the cartel...
In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of the oil game, some observers argued that the rises were welcome, on the theory that they might somehow manage to forestall even bigger OPEC money grabs in the days ahead. By bringing its charges up to the $24 level, where much of the...
The developing countries' oil-import bill jumped from $4 billion in 1972 to about $44 billion this year, and some have-not nations are openly complaining about OPEC. The worsening crisis over crude prices may create an ideological dilemma for Third World leaders like Tanzania's Nyerere who...