Word: baluchistan
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...Soviet-backed parties in the Middle East. The recipients represent a who's who of revolutionary militant movements, starting with the P.L.O. and the Eritrean Liberation Front, dissident groups in the Gulf states, SWAPO and other smaller black African nationalist movements, and rebels in Pakistan's Baluchistan. The traffic reaches as far as Thailand and Burma. Its customers are not exclusively radical: some of the biggest and most lucrative orders have come from the embattled whites of Rhodesia...
...resorts, affluent Iranians now fly to Europe for a vacation-or a dental checkup, a visit to a London tailor or a Paris mistress. Some government ministers have tripled their departments' budgets, then put the money into expensive furniture and other signs of ostentation. The governor of Baluchistan province almost lost his job for ending his fiscal year with a $2.5 million surplus. Explains a Tehran editor: "It is considered almost immoral not to spend lavishly...
Bhutto's actions threatened to destroy a fragile peace worked out last year with the opposition National Awami Party, which is the dominant political force in Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province. Baluchi and Pathan tribesmen in the two provinces have long been agitating for greater autonomy and a larger share of the economic pie. Although the National Awami Party has never advocated independence from Pakistan, various other political groups in the provinces do. Recently a group called "Azad [Free] Baluchistan" has sought to unite Pakistani Baluchis with fellow tribesmen in Iran to form a new nation. Though...
Last month coal-mine owners, disgruntled over nationalization of their mines, and landlords, who had had their estates reduced by land reforms, staged a protest in the Las Bela district of Baluchistan. Government troops began moving into the area. Governor Bizenjo charged that the rebellion was actually inspired by the government as a pretext to discredit N.A.P. leadership before it could marshal opposition to Bhutto's proposed new constitution...
...capital, Islamabad. Bhutto charged that the arms had been smuggled in to aid a civilian coup against him, though he has offered no conclusive proof. He used the alleged plot as an excuse to oust the Iraqi ambassador, sack the two governors and send additional troops into Baluchistan...