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...Japan, apparently on its way to reinforce the Soviet fleet contingent in the Indian Ocean. No less worrisome were the medical bulletins from Belgrade, reporting on the rapidly deteriorating health of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 87. Without Tito, who broke with the Kremlin in 1948, Yugoslavia might fall prey to internal conflicts that could inspire another Soviet intervention. This very specter seemed to rise last week with reports of troop movements inside the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe...
Nowhere was the U.N. revolt against Moscow more apparent than in the breakdown of the voting itself. Of the 18 countries opposing the resolution, only one -tiny Grenada, with a population of 100,000-was not ruled by a Communist regime. (Among Communist states, China, Cambodia, Yugoslavia and Albania voted against Moscow.) Fully 57 members of the Nonaligned Movement, over which Cuba currently presides, supported the resolution, and only nine followed the Soviet line. Among Muslim countries, the swing was even more drastic. Eighteen condemned the Soviet action and only two, Afghanistan and South Yemen, opposed the majority...
...much can improve in the world, including human rights (which can be dealt with through quiet diplomacy as has been the case in protecting 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...
...help in handling these transactions, Iran has lately turned to banks in Algeria and Libya, which immediately redeposit the money in European banks. Says a Tehran banker: "There is no shortage of brotherly Third World countries willing to help Iran." In addition, some Eastern European countries, including Rumania and Yugoslavia, have offered to act as Iran's middlemen for purchases of machinery and spare parts. Promised Yugoslav Vice Minister of Commerce Atanas Atanasiveski: "Yugoslavia will do all it can to meet Iran's commercial needs...
Instead, Karmal, a 50-year-old bachelor, went into hiding with other members of the Parcham group. Among them was his longtime mistress, Anahita Ratebzad, who had been packed off as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. When Taraki was overthrown-and killed-by Hafizullah Amin last September, Karmal was still underground. Diplomats speculated that the Soviets stashed him away in an Eastern European capital as a sort of strongman-in-reserve. As one expert puts it, "The Russians were keeping [him] on ice until [he was] needed...