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...finally met last week, the drum beats and trumpet calls from the capitals of the world had turned into a virtual symphony. NATO was convening in Brussels while the Warsaw Pact was gathering in Warsaw; Naples played host to a meeting of European Community foreign ministers, and Islamabad welcomed officials from the Islamic Conference states. Austria was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the end of postwar occupation, a glittering occasion that brought East and West together and provided the setting for the Muskie-Gromyko meeting. And this week, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist...
Fearful of Soviet incursions across the border, Pakistan is trying to feed and house the refugees, but denies arming or training the rebels. British officials are preparing a proposal for a joint program of aid by the European Community, the U.S. and the United Nations. London fears that the Islamabad government might begin ordering the refugees back across the border and forbid the rebels to regroup and pick up new arms shipments in Pakistan...
...spurned, even though they worry that Pakistan may become the Soviets' next target of opportunity. Their reasoning: the U.S. had been spared an alliance with a repressive, unpopular military dictator whose regime has only a modest chance of survival. Last week there were reports-vehemently denied by the Islamabad government-that some army officers had launched an attempted coup against Zia and failed...
...President by brusquely rejecting a U.S. offer of $400 million in military aid because it was too little ("Peanuts," Pakistan President Zia had said weeks before). Down the drain with that went the efforts of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who only five weeks ago on a mission to Islamabad had attempted to convince Zia that his security and future lay with the U.S. America, offering its money and a hint of its might, had been spurned in quite embarrassing public circumstances. The result: a serious blow to U.S. international prestige...
During the Islamabad conference of Foreign Ministers from Islamic states, the Saudis led the fight to condemn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Saudis' specific fear is that Moscow has embarked on a pincer-like squeeze of the Persian Gulf states by moving into Afghanistan and later, conceivably, Iran, even as the Soviets are buttressing their military outposts in South Yemen and Ethiopia...