Iran Hostage Crisis Tugging at State Department Task Force
Washington AP report details the Iranian Task Force and volunteer wives who monitor the 75 day hostage ordeal. They feel gratitude and guilt while working long hours behind security doors, maintaining contact with families, interpreting events, and hoping for progress amid fatigue and emotional strain.
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Iran
State Department
Tehran
Washington
America
Soviet Union
Afghanistan
Marion Precht
Henry
U.S
Foreign Service
Mrs. Precht
Survivor Twins Slimming Down After Billy’s Death
Benny McCrary, once part of the world's largest heavyweight twins act, has shed weight and faces life apart from Billy after his brother died in a motorcycle accident near Niagara Falls. Benny, now about 60 pounds, honors Billy with a 12,000-pound granite monument at Crab Creek Cemetery bearing motorcycle sketches.
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Hendersonville
N.C
Benny McCrary
Benny
Billy
Niagara Falls
Crab Creek
Benoy
Tammy
Omya
Counirrami
Puerto Rico
Economic future of Americans tied to Persian Gulf events
Washington reports warn that the Great American Economic Machine is imperiled by turmoil in Iran and Afghanistan with Mecca security incidents. Secretary Miller cautions that U S energy reliance on fragile Gulf lines risks sharp oil shortages and Soviet leverage, threatening 222 million Americans and global markets. Saudi Arabia dominates US imports, but output nears peak, raising fears of another supply shock after past OPEC price hikes.
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Washington
Iran
Afghanistan
Mecca
Saudi Arabia
William Miller
the Treasury
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Arabian Sea
Soviet Union
United States
Iraq
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Japan
OPEC
U.S
Israel
Egypt
Oil surpluses reshape Middle East oil power
The News reports that OPEC nations, led by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, earned a combined surplus of about 45 billion dollars last year. By 1982 the surplus is expected to rise to 90 billion as oil wealth concentrates in Persian Gulf states while Saudi Arabia and Kuwait consider cutting production and diversify into gold and other investments.
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Saudi Arabia
Soviet Union
Russia
Afghanistan
Iran
Persian Gulf
OPEC
Kuwait
U.S
Virginia airman paddles to work daily across Back River
Air Force Sgt. Mark Bloomfield of Langley Air Force Base paddles his 17-foot fiberglass canoe 3.5 miles to his hospital job each morning and back. He swims laps in Chesapeake Bay on weekends and plans a 650-mile 30-day canoe trip with his brother to retrace the trappers route from St Louis to Detroit. He hasn't driven since April 1979 and faces danger from power boats in rough waters.
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Bloomfield
Peter
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Detroit
Lake Erie
Wyandotte
Mich
Chesapeake Bay
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
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