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Article: Gulf States Pressure Soviets To Help End Iran-Iraq War;Arab Leaders Fear Moscow May Side With Tehran
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- The Washington Post
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- October 26, 1987
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The Soviet Union, which has made significant diplomatic inroads
in the Arab world over the past two years, is beginning to come under
pressure from Arab leaders who are seeking Moscow's active assistance
to end the Iran-Iraq war.
Concern in Arab capitals that Moscow, along with Peking, has
slowed the pace of a U.S.-backed drive in the United Nations to
enforce July's Security Council cease-fire resolution has put Soviet
envoys increasingly on the defensive, according to western and Arab
diplomats in the region.
"The tone is changing" toward the Soviet Union, said a senior
western diplomat. "The Soviet diplomats in the region feel quite
deeply that they are under suspicion."
These ...