Word: moscow
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Carter did not disclose just what sanctions the U.S. would request. But aides said they will probably include a partial trade embargo, exempting Iranian imports of food and Pharmaceuticals and exports of oil. Carter had no advance word from Moscow, aides said, whether the Soviets would go along with sanctions or block them with a veto...
Though some of their leaders were trained by Palestinians, the Fedayan consider themselves to be devout Iranian nationalists. They scorn the Soviet Union for backsliding from Marxist-Leninist principles and for giving Iranians advice that primarily serves Moscow...
...broader sense, the new missiles are designed to fill a political as well as a strategic gap in the Western deterrent by warning Moscow that it could not escape unscathed from nuclear threats aimed at dominating Western Europe. In 1977, both Britain and West Germany called Washington's attention to the fact that the alliance, if it should suddenly become the target of a Soviet attack in Europe, could easily find itself in a nuclear dilemma: its response might be either too modest (perhaps with the use of battlefield nuclear artillery) or too devastating (an intercontinental ballistic missile strike...
...final major meet before next July's Olympic Games in Moscow, U.S. men won three gold medals, three silvers and a bronze in individual events. At the last world championships in 1978, the U.S. took just one men's event -Thomas in the floor exercises. This time, Thomas won two gold medals and two silvers, and came within .275 of a point, after 18 events, of beating the Soviets' Alexander Ditiatin for the coveted all-around title. Amer ica's Bart Conner won a gold on the parallel bars and a bronze on the vault. What...
...team, how ever, still lacks the depth to be sure of performing as well in Moscow. Says Coach Roger Counsil: "What we need are three more Bart Conners or three more Kurt Thomases." Thomas, 23, is in his prime as a gymnast. Now an assistant coach at Arizona State, he has honed his routines in international meets for five years. Conner, a senior at the University of Oklahoma, has begun to come into his own at 21. But the rest of the U.S. squad of six are still young and green...