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Historical events, or so Karl Marx said, always happen twice: once as tragedy, the second time as farce. These days we are told we are enmeshed in a second Cold War. The Russians are once again out to conquer the entire world, starting with the Moslem tribesmen of Afghanistan. SALT II is off, the MX is on; public opinion polls show a majority of the U.S. population favors increased defense spending for the first time in a long while. Once again the calls go up to arm the anti-Communist dictators, and to hell with human rights, nonproliferation or progressive...
TEHRAN, Iran--Some of the Moslem militants holding the U.S. Embassy in Tehran made a surprise pilgrimage to Qom yesterday to consult with Ayatollah Ruhollah Knomeini...
KABUL, Afghanistan--Diplomatic sources said yesterday the Soviet Union has moved additional men and armor into Afghanistan, but Moslem guerrillas closed a strategic highway linking the U.S.S.R. with Kabul, the Afghan capital...
...leap of the imagination can substantiate charges by Tass, the Soviet press agency, that the presence of 50,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan is a response to American "cold war" policies. Whether Soviet leaders decided to move in on Afghanistan because they feared the Moslem rebellion there would spread to the large Moslem minority in the Soviet Union, or whether the intervention is the first step in Soviet expansionary designs on the Middle East, the act shows the bankruptcy of Soviet claims to be the Third World's benefactor...
...United States should not supply arms to the Moslem rebels in Afghanistan, whatever the merits of their cause, and should not start selling arms to Pakistan, a military dictatorship which may well be working on its own nuclear system. Instead, the U.S. should take the crisis as a chance to show its Third World critics that it does not always live by the sword...