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Twenty-three years ago Iran, along with Pakistan and Turkey, became America's Southwest Asian ally in the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO). Today these nations on the southern flank of the Soviet Union are more than ever distressed about the growing political instability in their midst?and the potential that this creates for Kremlin mischief. Last week, after touring the volatile CENTO countries, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott wrote this assessment from Tehran...
Moscow's misgivings were aroused by Peking's transparent attempt to present itself as an alternative to the Soviets in the squabbling Communist camp. Certainly Hua's choice of three countries situated on the Soviet Union's southern flank did nothing to quell Russian suspicions. For its part, China has been equally worried about Soviet expansionism in Asia, as well as in the Horn of Africa and South Yemen. Peking, in short, was anxious to cultivate friends who would be effective in helping to halt the tide of what it calls Soviet "hegemony...
...prize soar. "They sounded as if they had low blood sugar, and I offered to send them sandwiches," recalls Webb. For the winner, Elaine Koster, 37, editor in chief and publisher of New American Library, the problem was breathable air. The cooling system in her office overlooking a gaudy flank of the Americana Hotel had been shut off. At 8 p.m. she retreated to her more comfortable West Side apartment for the final and triumphant round...
...statement following the House's action, Carter praised the "bipartisan, statesman-like recognition that the time has come to turn a new page in our relations with the countries of the eastern Mediterranean... [It] is a crucial step toward strengthening the vital southern flank of NATO." Washington expects that the Turks will reciprocate soon by allowing the U.S. to resume electronic monitoring of Soviet military activity from Turkish bases, which the Turks closed down three years...
Resuming full-scale shipments of arms to Turkey will strengthen NATO's southern flank. Almost twice the size of California, with a population of about 42 million, Turkey shares a 370-mile border with the Soviet Union. The 500,000-man Turkish armed forces are deservedly renowned for their ferocity. With more than 300 warplanes and nearly 3,000 tanks, they help tie down about 26 divisions of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, which otherwise might be deployed against NATO forces in Central Europe. Its location enables Turkey to monitor Soviet warships, including submarines, passing from the Black...