Word: pakistans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arms supplier to Soviet-backed parties in the Middle East. The recipients represent a who's who of revolutionary militant movements, starting with the P.L.O. and the Eritrean Liberation Front, dissident groups in the Gulf states, SWAPO and other smaller black African nationalist movements, and rebels in Pakistan's Baluchistan. The traffic reaches as far as Thailand and Burma. Its customers are not exclusively radical: some of the biggest and most lucrative orders have come from the embattled whites of Rhodesia...
...initiative in May 1975 when he called for a conference of nuclear suppliers, which has so far met six times. But Carter's chiding of Ford for not using his influence to stop the sale of nuclear fuel reprocessing plants by Germany and France to Brazil and Pakistan was a point well taken...
...bathtub last March, De Vathaire took up with a nightclub hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant adventurer best known for his aborted 1971 hijacking of a Pakistan Airlines plane supposedly for the purpose of sending food to Bangladesh. He is also a mercenary who has fought in Biafra, Yemen, Angola and Nigeria...
...French-Canadian medical secretary who met and fell in love with him on a visit to Bangkok. Police believe that the pair committed at least nine murders in India, five in Thailand and two in Nepal. They are also suspected of crimes in Canada, France, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Pakistan and South Viet...
...round out the tour, Kissinger planned brief stopovers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, France and The Netherlands. He had wanted to go to Australia but had to cancel out when Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser asked to make a Bicentennial visit to the U.S. He had also hoped to stop in Manila to sign a new base agreement with the Philippines, but the talks bogged down, so that was out. In fact, he even had to do a little arm twisting to get himself invited to The Netherlands. Even though Kissinger had never paid the country a visit, the Dutch tried diplomatically...