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From the Khyber Pass to the shores of the Arabian Sea, the land has known all manner of conquerors: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the British raj. Today, Pakistan has as much geopolitical importance as it had centuries ago. To the west lies an Iran convulsed by Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution, to the east a teeming, sometimes hostile India, to the north and west an Afghanistan occupied by the Soviet army. When Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, 58, meets President Reagan in Washington this week, strategic issues, not surprisingly, will dominate the agenda...
Maybe it doesn't pay to live in Cambridge after all. A Saudi Arabian sheik, who previously doled out lavish cash gifts to several Florida cities and offered a Pennsylvania town $3 million to vote against President Reagan in 1984, never showed at a meeting scheduled with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci last week...
...Saudi Arabian sheik who has donated sizeable gifts to several Florida cities and recently offered a Pennsylvania town &3 million to vote against President Reagen in 1984 failed to appear Thursday day at a meeting scheduled with Mayor Alfred E. Vellecci at which he was give $150,000 to the city's Boys' and girls Clubs, It was learned last night...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman is the most forthright, and therefore often the loneliest, of America's friends on the Arabian peninsula. He is also the most optimistic, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott found during an interview with the 41-year-old monarch...
...fears of the gulf states have hardly been allayed by such words, though their governments have decided not to launch military exercises with the U.S. aimed at discouraging Iranian expansionism. Explains a Saudi Arabian official: "This would have played straight into the hands of the radicals in Tehran." For the moment the Saudis and their neighbors see no point in unnecessarily provoking the ayatullahs. -By William E. Smith...