Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini government's initial response was unexpectedly positive. After discussing the resolution with the Ayatullah, Ghotbzadeh complained that it did not deal with Iran's demand for the return of the exiled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi but nonetheless represented "a step forward." U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim thereupon began private negotiations to carry out the U.N. request...
...March, said Kissinger, a State Department official asked him to advise the Shah not to seek admittance to the U.S. until emotions calmed in Tehran. Said Kissinger: "I refused with some indignation." Kissinger and David Rockefeller thereupon both asked the Government to help the Shah seek asylum in another country. Says Kissinger: "We were told that no official assistance of any kind was contemplated. This I considered deeply wrong and still...
There were also large demonstrations in Karachi, and the American cultural centers in Lahore and Rawalpindi were burned and gutted. The next day Washington ordered all "nonessential embassy personnel" and dependents evacuated from Pakistan. Thereupon some 400 Americans, mostly wives and children of U.S. personnel, flew home...
...staff meeting in the White House's Roosevelt Room. Said Carter to his senior aides: "I didn't come to pat everybody on the back. Every one of you knows what you have done right. But there has not been enough done right." He thereupon announced Jordan's elevation to chief of staff and shortly afterward left the room. Forty-five minutes later, Carter and Jordan strode into the Cabinet Room, where the twelve members and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young were waiting. They knew that something big was up; they had already been told not to bring any aides. Said...
This surprising moral treatise concerns a historical episode little known in the West in which the Japanese, having learned to make and use firearms, thereupon set those skills aside for 200 years. Portuguese sailors brought the first matchlocks to Japan in 1543, and within a few years the Japanese were using their own much improved models with bloody effectiveness. A nationwide revulsion then occurred, not because of the bloodiness, notes Perrin - Japan was one of the most bellicose countries on earth - but because guns gave common soldiers the means to kill noble samurai. By the time Commodore Perry forced...