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...have been suppressed. But Soviet forces in the major cities remained on full alert as rebel leaders threatened a new round of guerrilla attacks. Rumors of an outright reign of terror, with summary executions of suspected Muslim instigators, seemed certain to compound seething popular resentment. Said a Western diplomat: "The Soviets may have succeeded in subduing the population in this first round, but that is not the end of the affair, knowing these hot-blooded Afghans." Added another: "The quagmire Moscow has created for itself is getting deeper and deeper...
...peaceful citywide protest demonstration into prolonged violence was the availability of clandestine weapons. They had been smuggled into the city during the previous four weeks, or seized in a series of insurgent raids against at least three police stations. One of these preliminary attacks, according to a Western diplomat who witnessed it, was launched by people in a housing complex uphill from a station in the Jam-almena area in the southwest part of the city. A number of the residents started shooting down at the building. As the police ran out to see what was happening, they were picked...
There was too much optimism two I weeks ago, and there is too much gloom now. Reality is somewhere in between." So said a Western diplomat in Tehran last week, reflecting on agonizing new uncertainties about the fate of the 50 Americans held hostage by militants occupying the U.S. embassy and the three at the Foreign Ministry. A United Nations commission, named to study allegations against the deposed Shah and his regime, began hearing witnesses in the Iranian capital. In approving the commission, the U.S. had assumed that Iran, as its part of a "gentleman's agreement," would arrange...
...stunning turnabout at the United Nations, meanwhile, a Kabul official sent to defend his government before a special meeting of the nonaligned countries defected instead and denounced the Soviet "occupation." The 33-year-old career diplomat, Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, dramatically declared his support for his "compatriots in the liberation struggle...
Neither side gave an inch during Vance's 4½-hour meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet. French officials remained convinced that U.S. insistence on "punishing" the Soviets would only make Moscow dig in deeper. Explained one diplomat: "The European view is that we should retain the leverage to put pressure on the Soviets because we think there's still a chance of getting them to pull out of Afghanistan...