Word: iraq
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...close ties there. But somehow the Russians have trouble enlarging their footholds. They seem unpopular nearly everywhere they go. In the Middle East, where they once threatened to become the Big Brother of the Arab world, the Soviets have been kicked out of Egypt; relations with both Syria and Iraq have chilled. Despite ample military aid to leftists in Mozambique, Angola and elsewhere, they are not yet a viable power in Africa. Somalia, once Moscow's most compliant ally on the continent, is gradually rejecting Russia's influence; as the U.S. did in Viet Nam the Kremlin...
Elsewhere as well, terrorist violence continued. At Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq-based Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon...
...major international conventions dealing with aspects of terrorism have been adopted by consortiums of nations. But as long as there are states that will not sign such agreements, and no punitive measures can be taken against them, enforcement is impossible. A number of countries, notably Libya, South Yemen, Iraq, North Korea and Cuba, provide terrorists with money, arms or a haven; they seem to enjoy watching the industrial democracies squirm. Tough anti-terrorist resolutions have been presented at the United Nations; they usually suffer endless delays and are then emasculated. Following Lufthansa Pilot Schumann's death, Derry Pearce, president...
...raise the conceivability of a global organization, or perhaps a loose confederation, with a single leader-a boss of all bosses of world terrorism. At the moment, the most probable candidate for that job would be Wadi Haddad, 48, a squat Palestinian who operates covertly from both Libya and Iraq. (He seeks anonymity to a point that one of the few pictures of him known to have existed has been stolen from the files of an Arab government intelligence agency.) Born in Safad, near Lake Tiberias, Haddad studied pediatric medicine at the American University of Beirut and later joined...
During my 1975 visit to Iraq I returned the first of these priceless tablets, and I know how important the completion of that return is to the people of that country. The voluntary action by Harvard this week in sending back the rest of these 3500-year-old records is an important contribution to international goodwill and will return handsome dividends when American archeologists seek permission to borrow and study the relics of other nations around the world. Edward M. Kennedy...