Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happily signed a 20-year "treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation" that is sure to increase concern in the West (as well as in Peking) that Afghanistan has become a new base for Soviet adventurism, one that spells particular trouble for the country's already unstable neighbors, Pakistan and Iran...
...opium smuggling, asked their Muslim mullahs what this was all about. The mullahs declared the government and party to be infidels, and some of the young ideologues were slaughtered. In came planes and armored cars, and the tribesmen fought back. Some crossed the border to the Pathan area of Pakistan, vowing badal-literally, paying back in kind-for family members killed...
...this time driving villagers into the frigid mountains. Neighboring Baluchi tribesmen, like the Pathans, have fled across the Pakistani border and are allied with separatist movements there. Some Western analysts have suggested that the Soviets may now want to take advantage of these movements to spearhead trouble in Pakistan and also in Iran, where some Baluchis have settled. For the moment, however, the Taraki regime's ineptitude in dealing with the tribesmen seems to have checked any such plan...
...SAVAK, Iran's notorious secret police, and cracked down on widespread corruption among profiteering businessmen and former government officials. General Nematullah Nasiri, who was head of SAVAK for 13 years before he was fired last June, has now been brought back from his post as Ambassador to Pakistan reportedly to face charges of corruption and murder. The government will also press charges against Amir Abbas Hoveida, Premier from 1965 to 1977, who has been accused by the opposition of wasting uncounted millions in public funds...
Last week speculation also ran to names rarely heard before: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 57, Brazil's brave champion of human rights; Joseph Cordeiro, 60, of Pakistan, who exudes saintly simplicity and concern for the poor; and Poland's Karol Wojtyla, 58, who is a strong leader in a hostile environment-and speaks fluent Italian...