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...Azad [Free] Baluchistan" has sought to unite Pakistani Baluchis with fellow tribesmen in Iran to form a new nation. Though the organization is small and appears to be composed mostly of students, it has opened an office in Baghdad and set up a clandestine radio in the area, straining Iraq's relations with Iran. This threat has prompted a growing military alliance between Iran and Pakistan, neither of which wants to lose a strategic chunk of its territory...
...Saudi Arabia's 42-year-old oil minister, had just realized the decades-old Arab dream of gaining control over the vast pools of oil beneath the Middle East's deserts. Last week's agreement allows the five Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq and Abu Dhabi to buy an immediate 20% interest in foreign oil-producing operations in their lands. Most important, the pact calls for the five states to get a 51 % share of ownership in time, perhaps by the early 1980s...
Crude oil may be a very important source of revenue to other countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, and Iraq, where its share of the total exports varies from 60 per cent to 95 per cent. It certainly is not so in Angola, where the exports are diversified into a large number of products sold all over the world. Sincerely yours, Reque Felix Dias Press Attache Portuguese Embassy, Washington...
...most of them civilians. Now, as defense officials explained after the Premier's speech, Israel intends systematically to attack the fedayeen and installations in the countries that harbor them. For instance, Israeli planes may attack not only guerrilla headquarters and training camps if they find them in Syria, Iraq, Libya or Egypt, but facilities belonging to the host country as well. At week's end an Israeli armored force, supported by jets, attacked several villages in southern Lebanon...
Threatened or actual boycotts are not new to the Olympic Games. U.S. participation in the 1936 Berlin Games was in doubt for months as many Americans urged a boycott to protest the anti-Semitism of the Nazi hosts. In 1956 Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon withdrew from the Melbourne Games because of the British-French occupation of Suez; that same year Spain and Holland refused to compete because of Russia's invasion of Hungary. Threatened withdrawal by Black African nations from the 1968 Mexico City Games resulted in the exclusion of black athletes from racist South Africa...