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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the near total breakdown of communications between the U.S. and Iranian governments, news organizations-especially the television networks-have been burdened with diplomatic duties even more sensitive than the ones they undertook in bringing Egypt's Anwar Sadat face to face with Israel's Menachem Begin two years ago. This time journalists have become conduits for semi-official exchanges, reluctant publicists for Iran, and a valuable source of information for the U.S. Government...
...July 1969 the Soviets undertook their first naval visit to Cuba. In November 1969, the Soviet Minister of Defense, Andrei Grechko, visited Cuba. In the months that followed, Soviet military activity in and around Cuba gradually increased-almost certainly to get us accustomed to a Soviet naval presence in the Caribbean...
...proved to be a temporary turning point. In that year a Peruvian government undertook to save the animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned for ten years the hunting of vicuna and the sale of products made from the animal; subsequently, Chile and Argentina joined in the La Paz Convention. In 1973, 51 nations voted to place the vicuña on the endangered-species list and bar it from the commercial market...
...European action represented a sharp challenge to the authority of the FAA. In the past, European carriers have automatically obeyed FAA directives involving U.S.-made aircraft. When Washington withdrew the DC-10's airworthiness certificate on June 6, the Europeans promptly grounded their 10s too and undertook extensive FAA-required examinations of the engine pylons and wing attachment fittings, which National Transportation Safety Board investigators suspect may have had a key role in the cause of the U.S.'s worst airline catastrophe...
...Surry plant, near Richmond, Va., someone poured what appeared to be sodium hydroxide, a corrosive chemical used for cleaning and purification, over stored fuel rods in an attempt to damage them. Two days later the plant was the subject of a bomb threat. Although it was not known who undertook these measures, the FBI was investigating...