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...concerned," he told reporters last week, "it is capable of defending our borders against any aggression." That bravado is not necessarily shared by Pakistani military commanders stationed along the country's 800-mile frontier with Afghanistan. An entirely different assessment was given visiting British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington last week by Lieut. General Fazal e-Haq, commander of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier. Pointing across the legendary Khyber Pass toward Kabul, Fazal said that the occupying Soviet armies would be able to strike across the border "with impunity...
Fazal showed Carrington and accompanying foreign correspondents a British-built defense network of underground bunkers, bridges and tank traps that are sorely in need of repair. Reason: Pakistan has concentrated four-fifths of its armed forces along the eastern border shared with its historic enemy, India. Fazal currently commands only two infantry divisions, plus the famed Khyber Rifles formed by the British a century ago. Of the 40,000 men under Fazal's command, 18,000 are paramilitary troops equipped only with rifles...
...Minister of Britain was perhaps the most notable sign that many voters in Europe were disillusioned with statist solutions and wanted a return to more conservative policies. At year's end her government could claim one notable diplomatic success. Under the skillful guidance of Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, leaders of both the interim Salisbury government and the Patriotic Front guerrillas signed an agreement that promised?precariously?to end a seven-year-old civil war and provide a peaceful transition to genuine majority rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. There were other indications of growing rationality in Africa, as three noxious...
Bristling at his highhanded tactics, Guerrilla Co-Leaders Mugabe and Nkomo sometimes accused him of "thinking he is Moses." As chairman of the 15-week London conference that produced the historic settlement, in fact, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington did not hesitate to impose himself. Operating with a formidable combination of hard-nosed brinkmanship and shrewd insight, he repeatedly extracted concessions with what appeared to be daredevil ultimatums...
...Patriotic Front's acceptance of the cease-fire terms came at the eleventh hour. Two days earlier, in fact, the Lancaster House conference had formally ended with no comprehensive settlement. In the face of a stern ultimatum from British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who had conducted the talks, Nkomo and Mugabe had flatly rejected a British scheme by which the guerrillas would assemble at 15 widely dispersed camps, which they felt would be too isolated and vulnerable. Their agreement was extracted by a British concession in a numbers game. It gave the Front forces a 16th camp...