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Selig Harrison, a Southwest Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argues that the U.S. should encourage the Zia regime to try to placate these minority groups-for instance, by granting a measure of autonomy to the Baluchs of southwestern Pakistan. During a 1973-77 rebellion, Harrison recalls, the Pakistan air force used Iranian-supplied U.S. helicopters to raze Baluch villages indiscriminately, thereby unleashing "a legacy of hatred that has merely intensified separatist feelings." Recently, however, some Baluch leaders have told U.S. diplomats that they are worried about the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, and would settle for regional...
...consequence of the attack was the sudden appearance of a formidable Tunisian supporter: France. The French keep a fatherly eye on many of their onetime colonies and protectorates in Africa: last year, for example, Paris dispatched troops to help Chad put down a Libya-backed rebellion. Shortly after last week's clash in Gafsa, three French Navy warships-a cruiser, a frigate and an escort vessel -slipped out of their Mediterranean base at Toulon. The government claimed they were headed for maneuvers near Crete, but officials suggested that the ships would first "show themselves" off the Tunisian coast...
...Afghan rebellion is doubly dangerous because it has Chinese backing. China represents one of the two strategic obsessions of the Soviet Union; the other is upheaval in Eastern Europe. Many sophisticated Russians believe war with their largest and most unfriendly neighbor is inevitable. The fear of China was one of the main incentives for Leonid Brezhnev to embark upon a policy of détente with the West. He did not want to wage cold wars-with the ever-present threat of hot ones-on two fronts. One reason why détente has all but failed is that...
Filartiga refuses to be affiliated with any party. Neither does he support a violent revolution. Human decency alone, he contends, dissolves dictatorships. More threatening to Stroessner than violent rebellion is caring. "I am serving the part of the country hated most--the people." Filartiga draws on dignity and faith to combat that hatred. Dignity Filartiga fosters every day as he promotes health among the peasants. Faith in the human capacity to overcome a dark political world allows him to continue his practice and sketch 100 drawings a year--in the shadow of his son's memory...
...Soviets escalated their intervention against Afghanistan's Muslim militants and recalcitrant tribesmen who had been waging a long simmering and spreading rebellion. The insurgents, in turn, received more covert assistance from China, Pakistan and other countries. But by now the U.S. was distracted by a new preoccupation, right next door in Iran. (One immediate consequence of the collapse of the Shah: CENTO, long moribund, was disbanded.) Insofar as U.S. diplomats and intelligence experts focused on Afghanistan at all, they made two miscalculations. First, they believed that the Soviets' desire to preserve detente would restrain them in Afghanistan. Second...