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...that seemed bound to hurt what Carter has called the vital American interests in the Persian Gulf, while enhancing the power and prestige of the Soviet Union-yet the U.S. seemed to have little ability to sway the course of events. Once again, as during the fall of the Shah and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. was standing on the sidelines as an anxious spectator...
...toward the Soviets-perhaps by buying from them uranium it could not get from the U.S. One of the goals of U.S. diplomacy in the region is to start re-establishing friendly relations with India, the greatest power on a subcontinent that was unsettled by the fall of the Shah in Iran and is threatened by the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan...
...since spring, when border clashes began to intensify and spread along the 760-mile frontier between the two countries. Traditional enemies, divided by ethnic and ideological differences, Iraq and Iran had come to a temporary accommodation in 1975 when Saddam, then Vice President, and the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi announced a frontier agreement during an OPEC summit in Algiers. The centerpiece of the accord was a change in the status of the Shatt al Arab, long a source of friction between the two nations. Under the Algiers agreement, the border was moved from the Iranian side of the disputed...
That didn't happen. Last Monday, Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie pledged U.S. non-interference in Iran's internal affairs, noted that a "chapter has closed" in Iran's history with the fall and death of the Shah, and emphasized that the U.S. "recognize(s) the reality of the Iranian Revolution." But by that time, the hostage issue had receded behind the shadow of the confrontation across the Iraq-Iran frontier...
...They say 'morality, morality, morality,' talking about our support of the Shah, and all we say is 'legality, legality, legality'--the hostages." In one way, however, Frye said, the two governments are in harmony: "They're using it (the crisis) as a political football, just like here...