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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after CIA Director Stansfield Turner remarked that though events in Iran stemmed from "genuine dissent," he was "sure there is some Soviet influence" at work in the country. Retorted Tass: "A downright lie. It is the U.S. that has inundated Iran with military experts, advisers and consultants, whose subversive activities were until recently guided by [Richard] Helms, one of Turner's predecessors in the post of CIA director...
...linkage is particularly important to Sadat, who is still trying to convince the moderate Arab states, and especially Saudi Arabia, that he is not selling out the Arab cause but is working for an overall settlement. Sadat has been disappointed that the Saudis, whose economic support is crucial to Egypt, have not publicly endorsed the Camp David accords. In truth they have been giving him some behind-the-scenes help. At a pan-Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraq to counter the peace initiative, Saudi Crown Prince Fahd told the other delegates: "An attack on Sadat...
...chance that a let's-be-friends approach might prevail. The Soviets, more concerned with keeping SALT on the right track than with making trouble for Western reporters, appeared to be growing bored with the whole issue. UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, whose ambition is to succeed Kurt Waldheim as U.N. Secretary-General, is staking his prestige on passage of a mass media declaration, preferably by consensus. To that end, delegates from Western and nonaligned nations were caucusing last week to come up with a compromise acceptable to the U.S. Some American opponents of the declaration...
DIED. Janet Planner, 86, writer and correspondent whose "Letter from Paris," by-lined "Genet," appeared regularly in The New Yorker for almost 50 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Indianapolis, Planner worked briefly as a newspaper film critic and traveled throughout Europe before settling in Paris in 1922. Three years later, New Yorker Editor Harold Ross hired the American expatriate, and for the next five decades she filed erudite portraits of French society. A graceful, exacting stylist, Planner also wrote profiles on figures as diverse as Adolf Hitler and Queen Mary of England...
Unrealistic oil production and revenue predictions, expensive delays and 100%-to-200% cost overruns at offshore platforms have led to economic crisis. Norway has greatly overspent its oil revenues. Prime Minister Odvar Nordli, whose Labor Party has governed for five years, felt it necessary to submit an austerity budget for 1979 and propose a wage-and-price freeze through the end of next year; the Norwegian parliament last week approved the freeze proposal...