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...less ambitious possibility would be a naval blockade, but it is questionable that even that would effectively squeeze Iran. The country has increasingly rerouted its trade to the north by land through the Soviet Union and is doing more business with the Warsaw Pact countries. Says a U.S. Commerce Department official: "There are eight planeloads of Polish meat flying into Iran every day. Iranian airports are littered with cargo planes from Rumania and East Germany. And the Iranians are very resourceful with whatever they get. Villagers in remote areas manufacture sophisticated weapons from car axles-yes, car axles...
...chance to see the world." Surkien fought back tears as he spoke: he had just learned that 14 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team, flying from New York City to matches in Cracow and Katowice, had died in the crash of a Polish IL-62 jetliner near Warsaw's Okecie Airport. The disaster, which took the lives of all 77 passengers and ten crew members, was the worst air crash in Poland's history...
Defending the U.S., Hammer said he told Brezhnev that the Afghanistan invasion marked "the first time the Russians had crossed the border of a non-Warsaw Pact country, and that it was difficult for the U.S. to believe that if the Soviets could do that to a neutral country, using such great force, that they would stop in the future." Brezhnev offered no response...
...Soviets have also launched a "peace offensive," aimed specifically at driving a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European allies. Last week Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov called for a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact "conference on military detente and disarmament in Europe." If NATO's approval last December of a U.S. proposal to deploy new medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe could only be canceled, said the two Communist Foreign Ministers, then talks could begin on reducing a comparable Soviet missile force...
...since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although economically and militarily tied to the Warsaw Pact, since 1966 has tried to go its own way in diplomatic matters. North Korea tends to play Moscow and Peking against each other, seeking aid from both...