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To all appearances, the Frontier in the late seventies was retreating back into its romantic history. Nothing much of international interest was going on there, and it was thought of less for its present-day importance than for the stories of the past. Whatever friction there was seemed to be essentially a local affair between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Whether or not the border dispute had been resovled mattered little to diplomats and politicans, whose attention was fully occupied by the Middle East and oil, economic recession in the industrial countries and poverty in the Third World. However, instability in Iran revealed the first chink in the otherwise satisfactory crescent of comfort established between Western spheres of influence and those of the Soviet Union.
[Chapter 9, The Fight goes on, p. 277].
