Word: actions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopscotching around Western Europe. He consulted with government leaders in London, Paris, Rome, Bonn and finally at the NATO meeting in Brussels. The allied governments previously had denounced Tehran for holding the hostages, but most of them are heavily dependent on Iranian petroleum and seemed unwilling to support any action that might cause Tehran to shut off their oil. Observed Harvard International Affairs Professor Stanley Hoffmann, who is on sabbatical in Paris: " There is on the part of Europeans a tendency to play spectator to world affairs as if they were at a stadium looking at other teams playing soccer...
That Europeans have qualms about further action against Iran was made very clear to Vance. Britain fears that additional economic retaliation might cause its embassy in Tehran to be attacked next. The British government has considered many options on the crisis, said a high official, but "you wind up rejecting most of them because they could endanger the hostages or lead to the taking of more hostages." West German officials warned that if the crisis turned into an economic war that involved other Middle East oil producers, the U.S. might lose its present worldwide support...
...other hand, the Europeans would rather have the U.S. put further economic pressure on Iran than take military action over the hostages. Thus, reported a senior official on Vance's plane: "There is virtually universal support for [new economic pressure] if there is no satisfactory response [from Iran] in the very near future." He added: "One thing that came through loud and clear is that there is really wholehearted support for us. We are operating against the background of very strong sympathy for the U.S. Everyone realizes that it is a desperate situation, and it may call for desperate...
...three years at a cost of $5 billion to the U.S., will be based in Western Europe but manned by American servicemen, thereby tying the U.S. inextricably to Western Europe's defense, but also raising the risks to Europe of a Soviet counterblow. In a second, more conciliatory action, the NATO powers also voted to ask the Soviet Union to enter into arms negotiations to reduce the numbers of mediumrange missiles on both sides...
...stage and Entwistle held tight to his bass, playing stubbornly on like a shipwreck's lone survivor trying to keep dry in a leaking lifeboat. There was too much discussion about how all this was rock's reflection of Pop art, happenings and autodestruction, how the demolition was an action critique of material values. But until the destruction came to be expected and then required, all this razing was never phony. Anyone in the audience could tell those instruments were extensions of, even surrogates for, the four blessed, blitzed maniacs in the band. That was not Pop art onstage...