Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Saudi Arabia-based Islamic World League declared that "the Communist aggression aims at eliminating the Muslim presence in Afghanistan. In Turkey, which has been plagued by mounting economic problems and political instability (see WORLD), military leaders alluded to the Afghanistan crisis when they warned rival civilian politicians to start working together or face overthrow...
...Soviets have a vested interest in getting an influence in Iran. The prize in political, economic and military terms would be enormous. It would, place them in a position of being able to turn off the oil tap for Western consumers almost at will when the oil shortage starts to really bite later in the 1980s." It would also put them in a position of having immediate access to the gulf's rich petroleum reserves when, in the next few years, the U.S.S.R.'s domestic output of oil is expected to start falling short of its internal needs...
...building on." For weeks the Iranian government has sought an international hearing for its grievances against the Shah and the U.S. But by week's end there was no sign that Waldheim had produced the slightest movement toward achieving the main purpose of his trip to Tehran: to start negotiations on the release of the 50 American hostages at the U.S. embassy. The Secretary-General was under instruction to report back to the U.N. Security Council before its next meeting on Iran, scheduled for Monday, Jan. 7; if he signaled failure, the council had agreed to begin its debate...
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