Word: iraq
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...piping and other equipment. Other guerrilla activity, in a sandy area of high visibility for patrolling Phantom jets, is expected to be minimal and easily surmountable. The plan also assumes that the Soviet Union would offer no military opposition to the takeover, but might move its forces into neighboring Iraq in a show of force. The Soviets, in the view of the Joint Chiefs, have neither the desire nor, so far, the naval capability to oppose massive U.S. action in the Persian Gulf...
...some 20 people in a running battle with French police. "We cannot condone such acts, which only harm French and Palestinian people," said Arafat. The Iraqi government allowed the guerrillas to land at Baghdad in a French airliner that had flown them from Orly, but then arrested them. Either Iraq or the Palestine Liberation Organization may punish the men. Such threats have been made in the past after similar incidents, but never carried out. Whether the Arabs are in earnest this time remains to be seen...
...says but what he does, and what he does has given us no cause for alarm." Actually the Shah was trying to improve Iran's relations with the Arabs, who worry about his military domination of the Persian Gulf and are unhappy about his continuing border battles with Iraq, a staunch ally of Syria. In both Amman and Cairo, the Shah offered aid to his hosts. With U.S. approval, he presented Hussein with a squadron of F-5A fighters being phased out of the Iranian air force for newer U.S. jets. In Cairo, the Shah's experts worked...
...visit to Cairo of Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Last week it appeared that the Egyptian President still preferred to talk peace rather than talk war on Russian terms. After a flurry of Egyptian and Soviet diplomatic activity, Brezhnev postponed indefinitely his state visits to Egypt, Syria and Iraq. In light of the Soviet Union's unmistakable desire to increase its influence in shaping a Middle Eastern peace settlement, the postponement was a clear setback for Moscow. It also provided new hope for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's strategy of careful, step-by-step negotiations involving...
...pressure Israel into returning more of occupied Sinai to Egypt as another positive step toward settlement. Unwilling to suffer what might appear to be a rejection of his own brand of personal diplomacy, Brezhnev put off his trip. Although Moscow has relatively few policy differences with Syria and Iraq, Brezhnev could hardly visit those nations and skip Egypt; that would be a much harsher public slap at Sadat than the Soviet leader probably wants to administer...