Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pakistan is also an example of the danger that the pendulum could swing too far in the other direction. The U.S. could throw itself foursquare behind the military rule of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq just before Zia came tumbling down-another client-dictator the U.S. would then have "lost...
Carter seems aware of that danger and determined to avoid it. "He's always been stubborn in his convictions," says a close adviser, "and in the past few weeks he's acquired a new one, that the Russians will use raw power anywhere they think they can get away with it. But he's still got his old convictions, too, and he's not going to abandon them...
Washington's worries are shared by the Pakistan government, which nonetheless prepared to accept the offers of American help with something less than full enthusiasm. A grim editorial in the Pakistan Times charged the U.S. with having adopted a "hostile tone" toward Islamabad and being blind to "the danger posed to Pakistan" by the original Marxist coup in Afghanistan in 1978. It was, said the editorial, "amazing that the event was lost on Washington and London." But in a certain teeth-gritting spirit, the editorial concluded: "Pakistan must accept the offer of military aid from the United States...
...other with the arms, but in actual fact they have used them against us. I think even if they are used against Afghanistan it's not going to contribute to peace in the area. When the government is as it is in Pakistan, there is also a danger that [weapons] may be used against their own people. So from all points of view we think it's a mistake. Besides, any kind of alliance which is against somebody always increases tension and creates problems. So this kind of linkup with the U.S., Pakistan and China I think...
...months the candidates in both political parties who seek Jimmy Carter's job had watched helplessly as Americans rallied behind the President and supported his handling of the crisis in Iran. With hostages' lives in danger, most of Carter's opponents restlessly refrained from making any partisan criticism. But the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan changed everything, and last week any moratorium on presidential politicking ended with a bang...