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...mujahedin spokesman in Pakistan claimed that the attackers blew up ammunition dumps, aviation-fuel tanks, barracks where Soviet flight crews and traffic controllers slept, and water tanks, crucial in drought-stricken Kabul. One Western military analyst observed that the raid showed both that "the iron discipline of the mujahedin has not been broken" and that the CIA weapons pipeline to the rebels is improving. MALAYSIA Where Dadah Means Death...
...observers be present for the 1986 and 1987 elections. Marcos also gave Laxalt two lengthy reports, one on the economy and the other on the military, to support his view that the insurgency is not as grave as the U.S. portrays. Said a State Department analyst: "We've got our own sources, and they indicate that the threat is far more serious than Marcos allows. Marcos has downplayed the threat...
...William McCormick, formerly a top American Express executive, has been Fireman's president since December 1983. Last June the subsidiary was put up for sale, but no corporation wanted to buy it. "They couldn't sell it to anyone else, so they sold it to the public," explains one analyst...
Western TV viewers are already familiar with Georgi Arbatov, 62, in his role as a Kremlin analyst of U.S.-Soviet relations. As the longtime head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, an arm of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Arbatov has turned the institute, as well as himself, into an active formulator of policy as well as an academic source of information. Although his writings reflect a yearning to return to the détente of the early 1970s, he rarely deviates from the official Soviet line. His stiff criticism...
...Reagan Administration reacted cautiously to Marcos' election announcement. Said a U.S. Government analyst: "We are under no illusions about President Marcos and his intention to stay in power, about his resources and his tactical brilliance in Philippine politics." Rather than applaud Marcos' decision, the U.S. outlined the conditions necessary for the elections to be considered free and fair. Among them were 1) "professional" behavior by the Philippine military, meaning political neutrality; 2) an impartial supervising election commission; and 3) independent civilian observers. Said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "If elections are to re-establish confidence, then it is essential that...