Word: iraq
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That plan ran into difficulty in Cairo as soon as the meeting was brought to order. Iraq's Foreign Minister Saadun Hammadi, whose government had sent 2,000 troops into Lebanon on the Palestinian side, demanded the full withdrawal of Syrian forces from the country. He denounced the Riyadh pact authorizing them to become part of the post-armistice force. Hammadi's demands plunged the first major Arab summit in two years into a bitter dispute...
...that Damascus has withdrawn most of its offensive military power from the Golan Heights. Last year the Syrians had five armored divisions standing between Damascus and the Israeli-occupied territory on the Heights. Gradually, those forces were shifted, either to Lebanon or to Syria's troubled border with Iraq...
...Administration's position on the heavy commitment to Iran, based on the 1969 Nixon Doctrine recommending that regional leaders assume greater responsibility for security in their areas, is that it suits U.S. interests to have a strong Iran capable of defending itself. "Being surrounded by Iraq, Afghanistan, India and the Soviet Union is no minor defense problem," argues one high U.S. official. "Selling Iranians arms so they can defend themselves is better than having to do it for them." As for the subcommittee's charge that American employees could be held "hostage" by Tehran, the Shah last week...
Unfortunately, the list of countries continues to stretch across the globe. There have been several well-documented cases of torture and even death during interrogation in South Korea. According to Amnesty International, there have been numerous charges of brutal, disfiguring tortures in Iraq, especially in Baghdad's Kasr-al-Nihaya Prison. In many black African countries, few torture victims survive to tell their stories. In such one-man dictatorships as Francisco Macias Nguema's Equatorial Guinea, Idi Amin's Uganda, Jean Bedel Bokassa's Central African Republic and Ahmed Sekou Toure's Republic of Guinea...
Losing Strength. In recent months, Syria's 15,000 troops in Lebanon have helped bring the P.L.O.-Moslems largely, but not completely-under control. Libya has desperately tried to help the Palestinians, pouring as much as $50 million into P.L.O. coffers in one month. Iraq and Egypt have given verbal support to the besieged leftists, but few arms have been getting through because of a Syrian naval blockade that is occasionally supported by Israeli ships. So weak has the P.L.O. now become that when the U.S. admitted that it had direct contacts with the P.L.O. (in order to secure...