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...White House seemed just as surprised to learn that Argentina had enormous grain reserves ready for sale to the U.S.S.R., a fact known by any grain trader in Chicago. The U.S. then sent a special emissary to Argentina to ask Strongman Jorge Videla to cooperate in the U.S. embargo, but Videla, who had been pilloried by the State Department's human rights pronouncements, refused. The Soviets will be able to make up about 60% of the lost U.S. shipments. Concedes a senior State Department official: "The grain embargo has become symbolic...
...ruler. Earlier Banisadr had been made chairman of the powerful Revolutionary Council. Yet he was unable to gain Khomeini's full backing on the hostage issue. Though Banisadr had indicated to Waldheim that Khomeini would publicly endorse the commission and call for the hostages' release, the clerical strongman instead went on radio last week to denounce the U.S. and praise "our dear youth" for "having thrown the enemies of religion off the scene." In another broadcast, he declared that "the fate of the hostages" will be decided by the Iranian parliament, a body that will not even...
...snipers, not only in the mountain passes but also reportedly in Kabul and other cities. There were unconfirmed rumors from the Afghan capital of widespread looting by Soviet troops, and even of gunfights involving Cabinet members in the government of national unity named by the U.S.S.R.'s puppet strongman, Babrak Karmal. The wildest story was that Karmal had been deposed in favor of former Secret Police Chief Assadullah Sarwari, a hard-line Stalinist...
...Pakistani capital, the U.S. team talked with Military Strongman Mohammed Zia ul-Haq about how to protect Pakistan from the Soviet threat along its 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan. Brzezinski and Christopher reassured Zia that the U.S. intended to come to Pakistan's aid in the event of a Soviet invasion. Though they failed to agree on an aid package, the Pakistani general seemed very interested in a pledge of defense. At the outset, Zia asked for a treaty with the U.S. that would protect Pakistan from all of its neighbors. Such a pact could conceivably oblige...
Banisadr also won a battle against the ambitious mullahs who resented the rise of a layman to a position of such importance in the revolution. They tried to postpone the oath-taking ceremony until after elections to the National Assembly next month. But Iran's strongman, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has been hospitalized for three weeks following a heart attack, ordered the ceremony to proceed immediately. Khomeini himself administered the oath of office to Banisadr at the Heart Hospital in north Tehran...