Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urge Robert Mugabe, one of the leaders of the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia, to be more flexible on the Anglo-American plan for bringing majority rule to the country. Brzezinski and the Chinese leaders also discussed their governments' mutual interest in countering political instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan...
Iran's future stability is of great importance to the West. Bordered by the Soviet Union to the north, Soviet-armed Iraq to the west and a new leftist regime in Afghanistan to the east, Iran is the major pro-Western military power in the Persian Gulf region. Although down 3% last year, Iran's oil income still brings the country about $22 billion a year. The Shah's problem is to see that this treasure is channeled into enough social benefits to defuse public discontent, thus allowing political reforms to be carried out in a relatively...
...clear how far Sadat is prepared to go in cracking down on his critics. He is afraid that the present "campaigns of doubt" could return the country to the chaos of the past, and he is disturbed about the recent leftist coup in Afghanistan and the continuing rioting in Iran. On the other hand, he has worked hard to earn a reputation as a liberal who has restored a multiparty system and political freedom after the Nasser dictatorship, and he does not want to tarnish that image...
What probably concerns Chinese leaders most is their reluctant conclusion that the U.S. has not been taking a hard enough line toward the U.S.S.R. State Department Sinologists believe that Peking regards Washington as having been weak in responding to Soviet gains in Africa; the Chinese surely see events in Afghanistan, where a closet Communist regime seized power last month, as another Soviet success. And this is on China's own western flank. Peking is also thought to feel that Carter has been too eager to accommodate the Russians in the slow-moving SALT talks and to abandon or defer...
...palace assault, was named Public Works Minister; and Major Mohammed Aslam was designated Communications Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister. The remaining appointees were civilians, among them Hafisullah Amin, a onetime Columbia University student, who was named Foreign Minister, and Amahita Pratebsad, who as Director of Social Welfare becomes Afghanistan's first woman minister. To broaden the new faction's base outside Kabul, a National Revolutionary Council was formed. Taraki will be chairman of the council; the deputy chairman will be Babrak Kamal, a general's son reputed to be the most hard-line Moscow Communist...