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...Saudis, who were touring Arab capitals last week drumming up support for their plan, had some opposition. The Libyans were working just as vigorously against the plan among their allies, including radical P.L.O. groups, Syria, Algeria and South Yemen, which at this point are not prepared to recognize Israel's right to exist at all. As the Fez summit approached, the future of the Saudi plan depended on two key questions: 1) Would the Libyans draw the other Arab hardline states into intractable opposition? 2) Would the P.L.O. endorse the proposal...
...Saudis felt threatened by a sequence of ominous events: the overthrow of the Shah of Iran (who in 1977 had ordered AWACS planes that fortuitously were never delivered); the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Ethiopia's increasing emergence as a Soviet ally on the Horn of Africa; Marxist South Yemen's attempt to overthrow the traditionally westward-leaning regime in northern Yemen. The Saudis began pressing for precisely the fuel tanks and bomb racks (Sidewinder missiles were added later) that Brown had said they would not get. When war broke out between Iran and Iraq, both Americans and Saudis had visions...
...detente. In answer, Haig cited President Reagan's fervent belief that Moscow is to blame for any chilly relations and attacked the Soviets for continuing to press their own formidable military augmentation. He also ticked off a familiar list of examples of Soviet expansionism: Angola, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Yemen, Cambodia and Central America...
...about Soviet misbehavior. High on the list are the continuing arms buildup that threatens to upset the global military balance; Soviet support for terrorism through Libya, Cuba and the Palestine Liberation Organization; the continued occupation of Afghanistan; and Soviet intervention in such Third World nations as Angola, Ethiopia, South Yemen and Cambodia...
...Protocol on chemical and biological weapons and that their production is prohibited by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. Soviet technical journals, however, openly discuss methods for mass-producing mycotoxins. In a new book called Yellow Rain, Journalist Sterling Seagrave cites evidence that the Soviets first used T2 during the Yemen civil war in the early 1960s. Military officials in Egypt, which was then a Soviet client, confirm that biochemical warfare equipment was deployed during that conflict. Seagrave also says that a biochemical weapons depot stocked with T2 poisons has been set up by Soviet advisers in Cuba...