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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overboard" in helping Iran circumvent the financial problems caused by the assets freeze. In addition, he said, some Japanese trading companies have rushed "with unseemly haste" to buy 21 million bbl. of Iranian oil that had been destined for the U.S. before Carter halted oil imports from Iran last month. The Japanese firms paid exorbitant sums for the oil, up to $45 per bbl., about twice the average OPEC price. Complained another Administration official: "They never quibbled about price, and when Iran said it would no longer take dollars in payment for its oil, the Japanese were all too willing...
...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...
During the month, the Kurds held autonomy talks with Tehran, demanding, among other things, an enlarged Kurdish province, a freely elected Kurdish assembly, and recognition of Kurdish as their region's official language. The talks have not gone well, and though the ceasefire has been unofficially extended, it is the most fragile of truces. "With the first snowfall, we'll attack," growled one key Kurd rebel...
...claims to have provided cash for gambling trips to Las Vegas, including $2,500 that was supposed to be handed to a very high executive through an intermediary. His "training fund," says he, paid for a lavish party for the daughter of one company official and covered the one-month-only charge account at a top Atlanta department store for the fiancee of another. He contends that Amoco rigged contests at its dealer service stations, and relatives of company executives won costly prizes, including new Ford Mustangs...
...Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev declared that the Soviet Union would not "watch indifferently the efforts of the NATO militarists," but would be ready to "take the necessary extra steps to strengthen our security." In a loudly proclaimed peace ges-ture-a carrot to accompany the stick -the Soviets last month announced the withdrawal of some obsolescent tank divisions from East Germany...