MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA BRIEF (DELETED) FOR 16 MAY 1985.

Created: 5/16/1985

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SSR-PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN: POW INCIDENT PUBLICIZED

//MOSCOW HAS GONE PUBLIC WITH ITS PROTEST TO PAKISTAN OVER THE DEATH IN LATE APRILROUP OF SOVIET AND AFGHAN POWS WHO WERE KILLED IN PAKISTAN AS THEr TBIFD To ESCAPE THEIR CAPTORS AN AFGHAN RESISTANCE CAMP. THhTBLbVAWTHE SOVIETS ARE DEMANDING THAT PAKISTAN PUNISH THOSE INVOLVED ANTJ ARE EXPECTING ISLAMABAO TO DRAW THE PROPER CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF COMPLICITY AGAINST AFGHANISTAN ANO THE USSR.fttLVBTkVATklVSMPH^SXZED 'THE HEROISM OF THE

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PROTEST OVER THE ROW INCIDENT PROBABLY ARE DESIGNED IN PART TO TO THE INTERNAL DEBATE IN;PAKISTAN ABOUT AFGHANISTAN WHEN THE PAKISTANI NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONVENES NEXT MONTH. IN ADDITION. THE SOVIETS OBVIOUSLY SEE INTERNAL BENEFITS. ESPECIALLY IN THEHE VE-OAV CELEBtrrnTJTTS. FROM HIGHLIGHTING THE TROOPS' HEROISM.//

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5. TERRORIST WATCH

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