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Blatant Soviet aggression is not likely to be the source of any instability in the near future. The importance of the Gulf region to the West has long been implicit in American policy; the Soviets did not need presidential envoy Clark Clifford in New Delhi or Carter in Washington to say so. The new, "hawkish" leaders in the Kremlin (if indeed they have taken over from the doddering Brezhnev) must realize that further military moves in the area would court a global conflict. Even Henry Kissinger recognizes that the Soviets, no matter how devious they are, will hesitate before taking...
...East Africa and the Middle East, Carter dispatched a new team of military experts, as a follow-up for an earlier group, to take a detailed second look at airfields and ports that might be used by U.S. troops during an emergency. Meanwhile, the President's special envoy for the Middle East, Sol Linowitz, prepared to depart for that troubled region this week to meet with the area's leaders...
...both Iran and Pakistan, this area is inhabited by fiercely independent Baluch tribesmen who have long sought autonomy from both countries. The other school maintained that the Soviet move was basically a defensive, self-contained operation aimed at rescuing a crumbling client regime. The military overkill, one Western European envoy argued, simply represented "typical Russian thoroughness-using more force than necessary in order to make sure." In any case, no one disagreed with the argument that the introduction of brute Soviet power into the region had raised a fearsome set of further options-most of them Moscow...
...Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against CIA and Zionist agents?two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the envoy that "Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said that the Soviets would come to grief if they remained in Afghanistan...
...U.S.S.R. During the debate, Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky complained that the U.S. resolution was too belligerent and therefore could not be supported by his government. He made no mention of the fact that as he spoke, his government's tanks were rolling through Afghanistan. The Soviet envoy's hypocrisy seemed to anger McHenry. Asked by a reporter after the debate whether the Soviets had abstained rather than vetoing the resolution because of a secret deal with the U.S., he snapped: "That is an obscene accusation. A country that is engaged in the rape of another country would...