Word: aid
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...plan. Instead, he recommended pressing the Israelis to negotiate a comprehensive peace with the Arab states in which they would surrender all the territory gained after the 1967 War and agree to a Muslim presence in Jerusalem. Akins warned that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states would stop all aid to Egypt if it reached a separate accord with Israel. "Next," said Akins, "if Sadat doesn't get this aid, he is going to be overthrown and replaced by somebody who is certainly not to our liking...
...relations with the Khomeini regime in Iran: Publicly recognize the abdication of the Shah ("We have said we will work with the new government, but we have not said an awful lot about the guy sitting out there in Morocco"). Offer the new government technical, agricultural, industrial and educational aid. Disavow convincingly any thought of sponsoring a countercoup, still a subject of great worry to the Iranian revolutionaries. Replace U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, who is thought to have been too close to the Shah. Train some of our State Department officers in Farsi "and send them over in waves...
...finite and risky value of military power is clear proof that the U.S. must not see it as a substitute for sophisticated and imaginative attention to political, social and economic problems hi the area. Not that economic aid is a surefire remedy either. Besides, Levy observed: "I believe our country isn't rich enough to marshal a Marshall Plan for the area...
Quite clearly, no single approach is going to be sufficient. U.S. policy must combine economic and technical aid with some military flag showing and perhaps even covert operations, offering friendship to some governments that are not now especially receptive, trying to induce cooperative regimes to be more concerned about and responsive to social unrest. That will be an exquisitely difficult policy to carry out. As several panelists noted, the U.S., under the best of circumstances, may suffer some further losses. But given enough will, patience and ingenuity, the U.S. has the strength to safeguard its vital interests in the crescent...
...guerrilla army, the Pesh Merga (Forward to Death). After a decade of battle, a truce was signed, and an Iraqi plan for limited Kurdish self-rule was drawn up but later rejected by Barzani, who resumed fighting. In 1976, after the Shah of Iran and the U.S. withdrew their aid to the Kurds, Barzani received asylum...