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...some of the dissidents in Yugoslavia and even in Chile) without the public humiliation and fear of internal explosion in what is still largely a passive population no longer numerically dominated by the Great Russian sector of the population. To humiliate the Soviet Union and to take chances on whoever may be the successor to Brezhnev is extraordinarily destabilizing at a time when Pakistan appears to be expanding its nuclear potential, when Israel and even Japan evidently have nuclear weapons or at least the potential of building these, and which I think even of countries such as Libya and Iraq...
...Whoever controls the Middle East's oil, or the area's Strait of Hormuz (40 miles wide at its narrowest) between Iran and the Sultanate of Oman through which most of it passes, acquires a stranglehold on the world's economy. The U.S.S.R. today is self-sufficient in oil, but it could well become a major net importer in the 1980s?and thus be in direct competition with the West for the crude pumped out of the desert sands. The warm-water ports so ardently desired by the Czars since the 18th century retain almost as much importance today. Soviet...
...More important, many of the guerrillas are unlikely to passively accept any result other than a victory by the Patriotic Front in the elections. Rather than turning in their guns, a number of them are known to be caching them in caves or underground. Warns a white Rhodesian officer: "Whoever loses the election will say to them, start digging...
Gueiler-or whoever will be running the country in the months ahead-faces some hard, unpopular decisions. In essence, Bolivia is broke. A representative of the International Monetary Fund has recommended a devaluation of the Bolivian peso, which is artificially pegged at 20 to the dollar, to help solve a complex of economic problems ranging from severe inflation to a foreign debt of $3 billion. Natusch, unrealistically, had promised to attack these economic woes by raising workers' salaries "without provoking inflation and without devaluing the currency...
...more than a year) to tumble. In a last-ditch defense of his policies, Barre sounded an emphatic warning against false expectations. "You can replace me, but don't have any illusions," he told a meeting of Giscard's supporters among the members of parliament. "My successor, whoever he is, will be forced to show the same strictness." What Barre obviously meant was that since austerity will not soon give way to prosperity, Giscard will have to find some other route back to Olympus...