Word: guardedness
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Five days before South Africa rejected the United Nation's peace-keeping proposals for Namibia, Richard Moose, assistant secretary of state for African Affairs sat back in his chair at the Faculty Club and termed the prognosis for a settlement this week, "guarded."
The 5,000-member Iranian secret police force SAVAK (a contraction of the Farsi words for security and information organization) has long been Iran's most hated and feared institution. With virtually unlimited powers to arrest and interrogate, SAVAK has tortured and murdered thousands of the Shah's...
"Virtually everything needs to be done," Fang has said in summarizing China's technological position. As president of China's Academy of Sciences, he is interested in all areas of direct scientific research. After a talk last week with White House Science Adviser Frank Press on future Chinese...
It was hardly the "vacation" that Bakhtiar had in mind when he asked the Shah to leave the country for a year or two as the price for putting together a new government. Nonetheless, the consensus in Iran, and indeed in capitals around the world, was that it was only...
Even so, the Administration wonders if its closest friend in OPEC did all it could to moderate the price increase. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani is the unofficial leader of the oil world; his word is powerful. This time, however, he was considerably less argumentative...